Quote

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

Ron Wyden

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ron Wyden
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 3
Basketball Player
Politician
United States Senator
Wichita
Kansas
Ronald Wyden
Ron Lee Wyden
State
Surveillance
Away
Liberties
States
Abiding
Always
Expanding
Constantly
Americans
Chipping
Liberty
Omnipresent
Law
Freedoms

More quotes by Ron Wyden

Image
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
Ron Wyden
Image
The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
Ron Wyden
Image
More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.
Ron Wyden
Image
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Ron Wyden
Image
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
Ron Wyden
Image
Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.
Ron Wyden
Image
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
Ron Wyden
Image
In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.
Ron Wyden
Image
I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.
Ron Wyden
Image
The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately
Ron Wyden
Image
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
Ron Wyden
Image
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
Ron Wyden
Image
For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
Ron Wyden
Image
Trade wars arent started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another countrys industries.
Ron Wyden
Image
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
Ron Wyden
Image
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
Ron Wyden
Image
It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
Ron Wyden
Image
If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
Ron Wyden
Image
The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.
Ron Wyden
Image
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.
Ron Wyden