Katharine Gun Quotes

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

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.

If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

The CIA claims that secrecy is necessary to hide what it's doing from enemies of the United States ... the real reason for secrecy is to hide what the CIA is doing from the American people.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country should hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it.

There is a general rule, which includes all the duties of a sovereign, and by which he may easily judge how to proceed under every circumstance. Let the safety of the people be the supreme law.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.