Marco Rubio Quotes

If we give the impression that every one of our technological advances in this country, be it Microsoft, Google, Yahoo or anything else, are really an instrument of our intelligence agencies, how far do you think they are really going to go?

I am unable to tell a quarter of a billion Americans what we are doing on their behalf, because if I did, it would become the table of contents of the training manual of the enemy.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

There’s always this struggle in a war between liberty and security … during war time we have these excesses and afterwards we apologize.

I want to make it clear … that America is not interested in spying on ordinary citizens.

… there has been no instance in which NSA could say with confidence that the outcome would have been different without the... telephony meta-data program.

I’d rather risk being a terrorists victim than live under a surveillance state.

The National Security Agency vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from or within the United States.

Stopping terror is clearly a pretext.

Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive.

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

There is still much to be done by our intelligence community to bring its achievements up to an acceptable level.

In the difficult fight against the new menace of international terrorism, there is nothing more crucial than timely and accurate intelligence