Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.