American people Quote by John O. Brennan

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I…

— Ehud Barak

This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's…

— Jeb Bush

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

— William J. Clinton

Obama's openness is a welcome change from his predecessor, who went all the way to the Supreme Court to hide the RSVP list for…

— Ari Melber

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the…

— Ron Fournier

I think, all in all, the Obama administration and what President Obama has focused on has lived up to our need to protect American…

— John F. Kerry

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government…

— Noah Feldman

I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist…

— Angela Merkel

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

— Max Mosley

We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without…

— Mike Pompeo

Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack…

— Valerie Jarrett

I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security,…

— Jeremy Scahill