“That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.” ImportantMatterStatesStrongUnitedUnited StatesEconomicPolicyDefenseCapabilityForeign PolicySupporterNsa Author:Dick Cheney
“The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCommunicationAssuredNsaMonitoring Author:Jay Carney
“What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.” ShouldStatesUnitedUnited StatesHappenedChangedRelationStakesNsa Author:Francois Hollande
“The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.” StatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesActivityProtectTerroristNsaState GovernmentTerrorist AttacksUnited States Government Author:Dana Perino
“Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.” WayStillsIdeasStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesTeamNo IdeaJournalistMassiveInvestigationDocumentsNsaState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentEncryption Author:Edward Snowden
“With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.” PeopleDoeStatesUnitedUnited StatesInternetCitizensEmailNsa Author:Barack Obama
“Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantCountryStatesUnitedEffortLeaderUnited StatesIssuesCitizensOrdinaryPicksDeservePhonesPrivacyAlliesOther CountriesSurveillanceHave ConfidenceNsaClose FriendsOrdinary Citizens Author:Barack Obama
“When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.” PeopleGivingStatesUseUsedUnitedUnited StatesCommunicationCreatingDollarsVulnerabilityZeroNsa Author:Edward Snowden
“The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.” ShouldStatesRealityPresidentUnitedUnited StatesEuropeSavedFranceGermanyApologizingNsa Author:Peter King