Spying among friends is never acceptable.

- Angela Merkel

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

- Eve Bunting

Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

- Gary Johnson

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

- Howard Rheingold

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

- John McAfee

I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

- Maria Semple

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

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

- Vladimir Putin

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