Quotes About Surveillance

The government, in effect, declared privacy privatized.

You can't tell what a tyrant is going to do," she said. "Uncertainty is one of their weapons. I've lived under the Nazis as well as the Communists. They're depressingly similar.

Es imposible saber lo que hará un tirano —sentenció—. La incertidumbre es una de sus armas. He vivido en la Alemania de los nazis y en la de los comunistas, y son tristemente parecidas.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

in Moscow, being paranoid doesn't mean doom is not on the way.

The Social Engineers wet dream is to be able to surveil us in our sleep

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.