Unwarranted Surveillance Quotes

Let's stop trading freedom for the illusion of security.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.

Every time there is a perceived crisis, law-enforcement agencies and legislators overreact, and usually due process and civil liberties suffer.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

The whole [sexual offender] register is a horrible mistake. I think it's utterly ridiculous to take teenage sex and make it a felony.

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.

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

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 notion of making everything we do, even in our bedroom, subject to litigation and courts, is a horrifying possibility.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

It's problematic when we have excessive numbers of police taking over the streets. People visiting Seoul for the first time might think... this is a military state.

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

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