Anna Eshoo Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

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.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

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.

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

You want your privacy as a human being.

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

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

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

Privacy, in my point of view, is a civil liberty that our Founding Fathers thought of a long time ago and concluded ... was an essential part of what it was to be an American.

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

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

Even if a person is doing nothing wrong, in a free society, that person shouldn’t have to justify every action that government officials might view as suspicious. A key component of freedom is not having to worry about how to explain oneself all the time.

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

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

Privacy is paradise.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.