There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, you're sitting at my desk in Hawaii. You have access to the entire world, as far as you… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
An investigation found the specific people who authorized the warrantless wiretapping of millions and millions of communications, which per count would have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
![“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5af/edward-snowden-555_america_the-great-fear-that-i-have-regarding-the_3003143.jpg)
