"We started to notice a heightened potential for violence."

"Union leaders having access to your phone number, your email address?"

"You can see the Internet is a very big concern for those in power."

“Attention, authorized drone strike zone.”

"If it creeps people out, then they need to be aware of that."

"...the cameras should stare at the area in question for an unspecified number of hours..."

"I think it's a matter of national importance."

"officers encroached on a protected area"

"The new provisions mean that any reporter...Walter Cronkite or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency."

"If it is considered "racist" or "discrimination" to ask a voter for a photo ID before they are allowed to cast a ballot, why is it not racist to ask for a government issued ID card when you want to buy drain cleaner?"

"...greatly expands permissible 'routine use' disclosures of personal information..."

Email, text messages, and file transfers all fair game.

"...you can start to make more intelligent guesses of what a person is doing. "

"We would refer them to the carriers..."

"War on Terror" tool hits the homeland.

"It never stops. It just gobbles up tag information."

"The system monitors patterns of movement."

“These data are constitutionally protected from this intrusion.”

"eye in the sky"

"Who wants to live in a totalitarian state when you're under constant electronic monitoring?"

Doesn't appear to be armed, yet.

"Once you have the device out there, someone says, 'Why not use it for this, or that.'"

"...could spy on people as they move around a hotel room, for example."