Cory Gardner Quotes

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

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

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

I believe that it is critical for this country to have a zone of privacy —– for everyone,

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

The right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest.

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

If we take away all our privacy rights, we become our own terrorists.

A democratic country has zero tolerance for all illegal monitoring operations.

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

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.

Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.

Arguing that you don't care about 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.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.