Right to Privacy Quotes

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

The subject of human rights in China is one which I have discussed on numerous occasions in the United States. In fact, I've talked so much about it, that I practically have blisters on my mouth. Human rights in China have been improving from one day to the next, and I think it's fair to say that the degree of human rights now being enjoyed by the Chinese people is unprecedented in China's history. We acknowledge that we still have shortcomings, and these shortcomings are ones which we are still working hard to address

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10 mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property.

There is no fear exception to the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

There should be no censorship of mail.

The Liberty of Conscience and of the Press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United States

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition—well, they are still radical ideas.

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.

I think that it was the best thing that could have happened when the Supreme Court legalized abortion.

If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

I do not like... the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land …. A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

The Constitution nowhere mentions a specific right of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life, but the ‘liberty’ protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment covers more than those freedoms explicitly named in the Bill of Rights

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.