Bills Quote by Malcolm Wallop

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of…

— Paul Simon

The first duty of government is to ensure its citizens are protected, but ID cards could never have done that. They would have been…

— Damian Green

The ID card was launched with fantastic claims about supposed benefits. In truth, it represented the worst of government.

— Damian Green

At various stages, ID cards have been necessary to protect us from terrorism, illegal immigration, and benefit fraud. But former home secretaries, academics and…

— Damian Green

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

— David Blunkett

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose…

— Ron Paul

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement…

— Richard Lamm

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far…

— Bill McCollum

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

— Chris Grayling

We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in…

— Bashar al-Assad

Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized'…

— Bob Beckel

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need…

— Chris Grayling