Top 30 Spying Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Spying Quotes from famous people such as Odette Annable, Ari Melber, Mark Strong, Neal Katyal, Annabella Sciorra, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents’ farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
Odette Annable
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.
Ari Melber
I’m sure, in real life, spying is boring – there’s probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that’s how movies get made.
Mark Strong
Barr has thrown himself in with Trump in ways unbecoming to the nation’s highest legal official. His conduct in trying to clear Trump is of a piece with his baseless attacks on ‘spying’ by the FBI and his defiance of Congress’s subpoenas.
Neal Katyal
I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.
Annabella Sciorra
What is missing from the Mueller report is an honest discussion about the origins of the unverified hearsay in the ‘Steele dossier’ that formed the underpinning of the unprecedented spying effort against Trump and his campaign.
Tom Fitton
In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.
Rony Abovitz
Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
Vladimir Putin
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Howard Rheingold
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
We’re not interested in applications where you’re spying on people.
Rana el Kaliouby
But the government spying on me was not done under the authority of a court warrant. That’s why my case is even more dangerous than the others.
Sharyl Attkisson
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
Ellen Tauscher
I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.
Witold Pilecki
The Supreme Court must strike down the government’s illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Rand Paul
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.
Russell Smith
Spying on the prime minister of Israel and Congress has nothing to do with national security – only politics.
Mark Meadows
Following sporadic reports of intelligence officials misleading Congress about surveilling U.S. citizens – even spying on journalists and political figures and their staffs – there was a series of red flags in 2016 and 2017 that should have drawn attention and action.
Sharyl Attkisson
Spying among friends is never acceptable.
Angela Merkel
There’s not a single flashlight app that’s not spying on you right now.
John McAfee
Easy spying is supposed to nab bad guys, but what happens when the small cabal of desperate men who head the security state see the future president as the bad guy?
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
I just feel like there’s this illicit thrill in reading other people’s mail and spying on their lives.
Maria Semple
People don’t object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it’s spying.
Sarah Jeong
I’m not against the NSA. I’m not against spying; I’m not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul
Spying on our citizens? That’s just wrong.
Matt Rosendale
It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
John le Carre
It’s tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
Jacob Weisberg
I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.
Betty White
I’m witnessing the problems that the federal government is passing down in terms of drones, in violation of our civil liberties, spying on our citizens, death panels in the form of the government taking over the health care system and the national debt they’re just saddling our grandchildren with.
Matt Rosendale
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.
Richard C. Armitage