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• Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

  William Kristol

  Country, Safe, Praise

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• Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.

  Deborah Lupton

  Health Education, Practice, Ill Health

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• The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Quality, Negative, Beef

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• We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, Technology, Action

  www.wired.com.

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Believe, Careers, Directors

  "FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  United States, World, Modern

  "The Snowden Effect, Continued" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. August 20, 2013.

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• We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Believe, Psychics, Poetry

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• The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Authority, Undisciplined, Invocation

  "Wozu noch Philosophie? (Why still philosophy?)". Paper by Theodor Adorno, 1963.

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• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  Yochai Benkler

  Government, Pillars, Principles

  "How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2013.

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• After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.

  Joe Biden

  War, Opportunity, Iraq

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• I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.

  Joan Didion

  Death, Sight, Lines

  Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.121, Vintage

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• This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, War, Past

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

  Wes Craven

  Writing, School, Titles

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• Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Block, Surveillance Cameras

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• Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

  Henry Miller

  Short Life, Long, Want

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

  Edward Snowden

  Lying, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.

  Jennifer Egan

  War, Men, Two

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.271, Anchor

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• When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  Barton Gellman

  New York, Voice, Telephones

  "U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata" by Barton Gellman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2013.

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• We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

  David Blunkett

  Years, Identity, Three

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• It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Years, Becoming

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I spent seven years of my life in the immediate aftermath of September 11th doing this work, working with the Patriot Act, working with our law enforcement, working with the surveillance community to make sure that we keep America safe.

  Chris Christie

  Seven Years, America, Law

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.

  Bruce Schneier

  Choices, Spy, Lord

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Attitude, Cutting, Iraq

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