Unjustified Intrusion Quotes

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

The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more unreasonable than searching the private phone records and digital information of citizens who are suspected of nothing.

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

Agreeing to partition is like allowing someone to come to your house, move into more than half the rooms, steal your furniture, kill and rape your daughters and then tell you to sign on the dotted line. We just can't say yes to that.

no court has ever authorized what the government now seeks, no law supports such unlimited and sweeping use of the judicial process, and the Constitution forbids it.

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

Upholding ... suspicionless drug testing would set a dangerous precedent.