James Comey:

The haystack is the entire country.

Anna Slomovic:

All of a sudden, everything you do and everything you eat, depending on which bits of the information they collect, is sitting in someone's database.

Maciej Ceglowski:

Data collection is a trade-off.

It hurts the people whose data you collect, but it also hurts your ability to think clearly.

Make sure that it's worth it!

Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl:

I want them to be worried that we're watching.

David Graeber:

If you see a policeman and you feel more safe, rather than less, then you can be pretty sure you're middle class.

Seth Stoughton:

Fear is ubiquitous in law enforcement.

Emrys Westacott:

What we should fear is not so much the technology as those who who are willing to misuse it.

Radiolab:

Once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.

Jane Harman:

The CIA should remember that just because it can do something doesn't mean it should.