Quotes About Surveillance

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.

It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.

Anyone who's ever been around an emergency in Manhattan realizes that there are plainclothes officers on these streets walking past us more than we ever realize.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

I've got no problem with drone strikes.

I strongly believe the Government are listening to everything we say.

California always struck me as a police state.

Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.

I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.

There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.

The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.

A hidden camera can only be a good journalist's last resort. But sometimes, it's the only option.

Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.

The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even "personal tastes and appetites should be subject to surveillance and review."4 It was knowledge, intrusive knowledge, that provided the Republic with its surest foundations.

Two passing jetliners reported to controllers they'd seen a man with a gun seated on a deck chair at eleven thousand feet…

Reynie knew they would be almost impossible to see down here, yet he suddenly felt so sure of being spotted he could almost hear the Ten Men's voices echoing down to the landing, "Oh, chickies! Here chickies!" But the men didn't even glance in their direction, and an instant later had passed out of view.