Jeff Duncan Quotes

The message to the NSA is coming from every branch of our government, from every corner of our nation. NSA, you’ve gone too far!

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

What is the government doing or not doing in terms of tracking you, following you, investigating you? And if you're suspicionless, it should be none of the above.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.

I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people.

Americans don’t spy on Americans.

… there has been no instance in which NSA could say with confidence that the outcome would have been different without the... telephony meta-data program.

In our view, the current storage by the government of bulk meta-data creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy, and civil liberty.

There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.

The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.

The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.

Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.

Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.

No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden.

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control, but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone.

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.

I've made sure that I've stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.

The problem is that the same technological tools we use to thwart terrorists can also be used against the people whose job it is to stop them.