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  • I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it. -- Terry Gross
  • The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution? -- Arlen Specter
  • I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world. -- Marina and the Diamonds
  • The right to privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. -- Harry A. Blackmun
  • At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right, and it is a very serious matter. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
  • The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. -- Rand Paul
  • The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition. -- David Novak
  • If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble. -- Coretta Scott King
  • If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. -- William J. Brennan
  • If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. -- William J. Brennan
  • I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy, -- Kevin Spacey
  • Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
  • If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
  • I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case. -- Dan Piraro
  • I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet. -- Rand Paul
  • I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor. -- Alma Adams
  • I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. -- Dave Reichert
  • I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy. -- Harry Leslie Smith
  • There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they're liable in a court of law. -- Ron Paul
  • The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time. -- Salil Shetty
  • I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive. -- Tim Cook
  • I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course. -- Rob Lowe
  • I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law -- Woody Allen
  • The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system. -- Barbara Boxer
  • I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way. -- Norman Lamm
  • The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. -- Harry A. Blackmun
  • According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. -- Luis Gutierrez
  • How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all. -- David Blunkett
  • Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. -- Robert Casey
  • We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble. -- Heather Brooke
  • I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy. -- Penelope Cruz
  • On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy. -- Nancy Keenan
  • A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right? -- Janet E. Smith
  • Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. -- Jackie Speier
  • This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place. -- Peter Ustinov
  • This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. -- Cory Doctorow
  • Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. -- Bruce Schneier
  • Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls. -- Tim Cook
  • Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you." -- Benjamin Wittes
  • If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. -- Faye Wattleton
  • We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. -- William O. Douglas
  • I believe in privacy, I believe that people especially when it comes to private emails, personal emails, et cetera, I think people have a right to that privacy. -- Sean Hannity
  • Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone's privacy, to destroy someone's sense of self. -- Jodie Foster
  • Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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