Robert Ludlum Quotes

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

The NSA has shown, time and time again, it will seize on any wiggle room in the law .

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

As a rule, governments monitor people.

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

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

Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous -- and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations -- have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity. Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable.

There is growing use of government intrusion into your creative space…. The government is able to see more deeply into our intellectual lives.

Americans don’t need a big government to read their e-mail and track what else they do

You are becoming a left wing McCarthyite …. The FBI has better things to do than to listen to our conversations.

I’d rather risk being a terrorists victim than live under a surveillance state.

The Great Firewall of China and the unrestricted surveillance by the National Security Agency illustrate a tendency for the state to assert its interests at the expense of individuals.

What is to stop the government from demanding that Apple write code to turn on the microphone [of a user's iPhone] in aid of government surveillance, activate the video camera, surreptitiously record conversations, or turn on location services to track the phone’s user? Nothing.

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

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.