Jay Leno Quotes

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

What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records.

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

If you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. It's reading your emails. When you call your grandma in Arkansas, the NSA knows. All total bulls - t. They made the public more concerned about the privacy issue than the legitimate facts should have done.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

The Olympics start on Friday, and Russia is implementing the most intensive security in Olympics history. During the games, the government will monitor every email, every social media message, and listen in on every phone call. In fact, people are even comparing Russia to the United States, that's how bad it is.

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject.