Address books Quote by Michael Gerson

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

— James R. Clapper

The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

— Barton Gellman

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Erik Prince

You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi,…

— William Binney

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.

— Jared Polis

You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the…

— Matt Shea

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

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

The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.

— Geoffrey Hinton