21st century Quote by Tim Lee

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would…

— Julian Sanchez

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and…

— Rand Paul

“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of…

— Glenn Greenwald

The Patriot Act has proven we can be tough on terror without compromising constitutional safeguards.

— Mike Johnson

“Nothing evinced so far justifies the catastrophic damage that the Snowden leaks have done to national security—the worst disaster in the history of American…

— Edward Lucas

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

— Penn Jillette

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

— Ron Wyden

“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the 1960s, the…

— Edward Lucas

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only…

— Edward Snowden

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and…

— John O. Brennan

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate…

— Mike Pence