Citizens Quote by James R. Clapper

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA…

— Michael Gerson

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I…

— Rand Paul

I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

— Erik Prince

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically…

— Edward Snowden

I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right…

— Edward Snowden

I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback.…

— Michael Shannon

The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about…

— Nat Hentoff

If you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. It's reading your emails. When you call your…

— Michael Morell

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control, but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law…

— William Binney

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

— Al Franken

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people…

— Edward Snowden

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

— Ralph Nader