Quotes About Government Spying

#1. I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

Tom Morello

#2. Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn't need drones. It's just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they're going to be spying on neighbors. People don't need drones.

Gary B Smith

#3. We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

Ted Cruz

#4. Happiness doesn't depend on external condition or situation but it depends on mental condition.

Debasish Mridha

#5. In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.

Sara Blakely

#6. The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. Do your worst, Mr Ward.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#8. You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#9. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

Edward Snowden

#10. The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

Padmasree Warrior

#11. We have got a CIA station just up the road - the consulate here in Hong Kong - and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

Edward Snowden

#12. Nobody in the government is talking. They say it's a case of national security.

Kenneth Eade

#13. I do not expect to see home again.

Edward Snowden

#14. The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

Edward Snowden

#15. I had purchased a one-way ticket on the crazy train, barreling straight toward heartbreak central.

Arabella Quinn

#16. I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.

Edward Snowden

#17. Expand your references, and you'll immediately expand your life.

Tony Robbins

#18. That was our place. That was where we used to make out!

Morgan Matson

#19. I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

Ralph Lauren

#20. You have to let go before you can reach.

Kate Messner

#21. The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

Rand Paul

#22. We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

Julian Assange

#23. I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

Ann Coulter

#24. Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable ... Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises ...

Thomas Keating

#25. Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Steve Coogan

#26. You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#27. The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

Glenn Greenwald

#28. They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.

Edward Snowden

#29. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.

Nancy Pelosi