Quotes About Right To Privacy

#1. Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

Elizabeth Warren

#2. The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

David Novak

#3. Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

Arlen Specter

#4. I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

Tim Cook

#5. The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#6. The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment's notice.

Marshawn Lynch

#7. I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.

Dan Piraro

#8. I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

Rand Paul

#9. We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#10. I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

Kevin Spacey

#11. I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

Woody Allen

#12. If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#13. The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right, and it is a very serious matter.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#15. There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they're liable in a court of law.

Ron Paul

#16. I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

Dave Reichert

#17. If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#18. I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

Alma Adams

#19. The aunts' conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.

Zen Cho

#20. While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

Nancy Keenan

#21. Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

Tim Cook

#22. If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Coretta Scott King

#23. I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

Terry Gross

#24. When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

Tim Cook

#25. The right to privacy is the pre-eminent right of any democracy.

Marty Rubin

#26. I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

Marina And The Diamonds

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

Rand Paul

#28. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Edward Snowden

#29. The right to privacy ... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Harry A. Blackmun

#30. Every child has a right to its own bent ... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

Penelope Cruz

#32. Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone's privacy, to destroy someone's sense of self.

Jodie Foster

#33. Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

Robert Casey

#34. I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

Barbara Boxer

#35. Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#36. And they were going to end up in bed. It was just a matter of finding the right time and a half hour of privacy.

HelenKay Dimon

#37. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. It is about choice, and having the power to control how you present yourself to the world.

Bruce Schneier

#38. Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little frightening to me right now is the fact that it feels so entirely opposed to the privacy that is writing.

Garth Greenwell

#39. The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

Harry A. Blackmun

#40. If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

Faye Wattleton

#41. On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

Nancy Keenan

#42. I'm not sure what's left of privacy right now, but whatever is left, I want to keep it for a while.

Bowen Greenwood

#43. I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Lamm

#44. Way to go, Hunter," Reese said sarcastically. "Maybe we should invite everyone's girlfriends to show up and hang out. Fuck privacy, right?

Jessica Clare

#45. I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

Britney Spears

#46. For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

Joe Biden

#47. He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#48. Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life's table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone's personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right.

Gloria Feldt

#49. This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

Peter Ustinov

#50. Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

Benjamin Wittes

#51. No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.

Richard Carlson

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

Lewis B. Smedes

#53. Privacy is everyone's given right, and the problem with the world today is the fact that everyone thinks they have a right to it, too.

Karina Halle

#54. According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Luis Gutierrez

#55. Zimmermann believed that everybody deserved the right to the privacy that was offered by RSA encryption, and he directed his political zeal toward developing an RSA encryption product for the masses.

Simon Singh

#56. I have not encouraged talk about man's holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man's right to have it.

Mie Hansson

#57. How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

David Blunkett

#58. See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. "Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#59. We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.

Heather Brooke

#60. The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]

William O. Douglas

#61. Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

Ron Paul

#62. It's time to recognise the Internet as a basic human right, that means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring Internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of Web users regardless of where they live.

Tim Berners-Lee

#63. You have not bought the right to a truthful answer: your truth has not bought it. Sincerity is not to be bought: it is given, if it comes at all - given or inflicted. And really, you cannot invade a man's privacy like that.

Patrick O'Brian