Civil liberties Quote by Walter Cronkite

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

— Lewis B. Smedes

There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance.…

— Laura Poitras

And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't…

— Mitt Romney

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying…

— Daniel Ellsberg

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

— Ron Paul

The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual…

— Ron Wyden

“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a…

— John W. Whitehead

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United…

— John Ashcroft

The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists…

— Ted Cruz

“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and actions unfold.…

— James William Steven Parker

This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping…

— Barack Obama

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge…

— Rand Paul