Bruce Cheney Quotations

Like everybody else, I enjoy my privacy and I don't want it invaded. At the same time, I enjoy breathing fairly regularly, and I don't want, for the sake of having to take my shoes off when I'm boarding a plane, to die because I got fussy about my shoes,

Most people . . . did not find it invasive, and did not find it delayed their trips unnecessarily.

The question becomes, should we not use that technology because you might get caught speeding, and give up the chance to see somebody who pulls under a bridge and starts unloading something that looks suspicious, with wires and fuses on it? ... Should the majority of people who are going to be driving over that bridge take the chance that they're going to be injured, to assure that you don't get caught?

At the moment, we are satisfied that they're all in good shape. Our concern is that additional water may change that.

It's a very delicate kabuki dance that we do between privacy and security, and I think to some greater or lesser extent you need to plug into the fact that your individual privacy might damage the majority's safety.

If I thought it was for the purpose of keeping me alive and my family alive, I guess I'd give up a little bit of privacy.