The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.
But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
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.
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.