Bill Maher Quotes

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

A right of privacy doesn't emerge from any single part of the Constitution. The right of privacy emerges from the Constitution as a whole.

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

I really fight for my privacy.

I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.

There is no fear exception to the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.

It's certainly important for people to have a sense of privacy.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

It’s an unfortunate and wonderful characteristic of America that we protect privacy for no reason.

I like my privacy as much as the next one, but I am compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific Constitutional provision.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

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

I am a deeply committed conservative who wants to keep maximal privacy for every U.S. citizen.