American people Quote by Ron Paul

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted…

— Glenn Greenwald

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.

— John Chancellor

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic…

— Al Franken

We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed…

— Nat Hentoff

We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets…

— Laura Poitras

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing.

— Jonathan Alter

One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship…

— Dick Cheney

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

— Ronald Reagan

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning…

— Laura Poitras

Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence…

— Ron Wyden

Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The…

— Glenn Greenwald