Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barton Gellman

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

Edward Snowden

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

Edward Snowden

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

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

Edward Snowden

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

Edward Snowden

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

Edward Snowden

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

Edward Snowden

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President

Edward Snowden

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Dan Aykroyd

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Oliver St. John

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver Kahn

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

John Cusack

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

Robert Cecil

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Anton Chekhov

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Elias Canetti

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Darby Stanchfield

My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina.

Adam Gopnik

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Chuck Todd

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

William Shakespeare

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

Benjamin Rush

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.