Glenn Greenwald Quotes

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 think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

The citizen is not adequately protected from the danger, or rather the apprehension, that his private affairs, the secrets of his family and his business will be disclosed to his neighbors.

The public must know about the general outlines of surveillance activities in order to evaluate whether the government is achieving the appropriate balance between privacy and security.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Privacy is a fundamental human need.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I've got nothing to hide.

I really fight for my privacy.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

I have nothing to hide!

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

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

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.

Keep big government out of our bedrooms.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

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

We don’t have to choose between preserving privacy and preventing terrorism. We do have to decide how much oversight and accountability there should be when the government conducts surveillance on its citizens.

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

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