Spying Quotes

Spying on the prime minister of Israel and Congress has nothing to do with national security - only politics.

Having watched the form of our traitors for a number of years, I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

…historically, the official personnel of the Soviet bloc countries assigned to this nation, including those at the United Nations, have been used extensively for espionage purposes…

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

It is important to seek out the spies that the enemy has sent to spy on you so you can bribe them to really spy for you.

It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

We should never send another spy to the Soviet Union. Honesty is all that is necessary.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a strong tradition of overseeing the government's power to spy on its citizens.

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

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

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

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.

We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

Espionage is largely separate from the mainstream of foreign policy … you nail the spy and you punish him, and you move on.

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 can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.