Balance Quote by Keir Starmer

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

— Dominic Grieve

The safety and security of our democracy demands competent civilian control of our armed forces, the subordination of military power to the civil. I…

— Lloyd Austin

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's…

— Keir Starmer

I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are collecting millions…

— Rand Paul

“Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty.”

— Erin Kellison

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay…

— John Zerzan

“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of…

— Glenn Greenwald

We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and…

— Stephen Colbert

“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state…

— Glenn Greenwald

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses…

— Tom A. Watson

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

— Barack Obama

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson