Nsa Quotes - Page 3

• All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Able, Milestone

  "5 takeaways from Edward Snowden's Washington Post interview" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2013.

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• The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Trying, Normal

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Way Forward, Giving, Abuse

  "Sen. Rand Paul calls NSA spying an 'utter, frank hypocrisy'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2013.

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• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Healthy

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

  Eric Holder

  Communication, Secret, Branches

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Key Quotes About the N.S.A. and Americans' Phone Records" by Alex Gangitano and Amelia Schonbek, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2013.

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• The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Usual, Return

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• The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

  Edward Snowden

  Israel, Together

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• Good things come in small packages.

  Aesop

  Humility, Good Things, Small Packages

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• It’s just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Doe, Earth

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Government, Records

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

  Edward Snowden

  Art, Thinking, Black

  "Snowden at SXSW: 'The Constitution was being violated on a massive scale'". www.rt.com. March 10, 2014.

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• With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.

  Michael Shannon

  Cutting, Phones, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA

  Bruce Schneier

  Mean, Giving, Wells

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• Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

  Matt Drudge

  War, Giving, Reason

  "Matt Drudge Asks: 'Why Would Anyone Vote Republican?'" by Josh Voorhees, www.businessinsider.com. September 3, 2013.

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• The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

  Joe Trippi

  Real, Miracle, Listening

  "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

  James R. Clapper

  Doe, Citizens, Mail

  "Clapper’s Lie" by Charles C. W. Cooke, www.nationalreview.com. June 11, 2013.

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• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Military, Writing, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

  Edward Snowden

  Citizens, Destroyed, Conscience

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions", www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

  Jane Harman

  Believe, House, Essentials

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• Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald

  Whistleblowers, Surveillance, Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.115, Signal

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• The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

  Michael Gerson

  Book, Rights, Average

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House and refused even to open an investigation. We cannot effectively legislate on the NSA spying issue if we do not know the facts, and we will not know them if the Republican-controlled intelligence committee persists in refusing to do its job.

  Harry Reid

  Jobs, White, Issues

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• Here's what we know about Santa. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I think he's with the NSA.

  David Letterman

  Sleep, Thinking, Santa

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• Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

  David Letterman

  Numbers

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", January 25, 2006.

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