Eavesdropping Quotes

It's been turning a profit after losing so much money and laying off people last year. Today it's hiring people, making profits in the first two quarters and my sources say that demand has picked up a lot for bugging equipment... It's a pure play on eavesdropping and it's one of the best ways to play this anti-terrorism movement. - Gene Marcial

It smacks of financial eavesdropping. It's not our role -- we're a service provider to small businesses. This proposal would put the credit card banks in a very strange position. - Charlotte Birch

It is not debatable whether the president can order electronic eavesdropping once Congress has passed a law making it criminal to do so. It is impeachable. The fact that we are sitting in 21st century America debating the issue of presidential power is ridiculous to me. - Michael Ratner

I'm not sure journalists fully appreciate the threat confronting us. The Times in the eavesdropping case, the Post for its CIA prison stories, and everyone else who has tried to look behind the war on terror. - Bill Keller

I know the Clinton administration's NSA was eavesdropping and recording millions and millions of electronic communications on Americans. Ron wouldn't talk on any phone about really sensitive things with a bearing on the independent counsel investigation because he knew his calls and mine were monitored. Data transmission such as credit card transactions were also monitored and the information passed on to FBI. - Nolanda Hill

Anyone else, in my opinion, is sort of eavesdropping on your information. I definitely think that's private information. - Brady Smith

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. - Tom Waits

An aide to Elliot Spitzer (New York's attorney general) told me that for law enforcement, having access to e-mail is like eavesdropping. They've never had that before. - Brian Babineau

A majority of Americans living today, a surprisingly small majority because of the large youthful population, still remembers Watergate. And when we hear the word eavesdropping, those of us who lived during Watergate, we think of the nefarious activities of the Nixon administration. - Larry Sabato

[National Security] is an advantage for Republicans, it's just that the advantage has been reduced somewhat due to the war in Iraq and the eavesdropping issue. - Larry Sabato