Nsa Quotes

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.

Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."

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.

To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about that.

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?