Edward Snowden

Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.

— Edward Snowden

Extremists are not going to disappear.

— Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

— Edward Snowden

I'm still working for the government.

— Edward Snowden

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

— Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again.

— Edward Snowden

I was living a charmed life.

— Edward Snowden

Nobody's going to vote for Isis.

— Edward Snowden

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

— Edward Snowden

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

— Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

— Edward Snowden

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

— Edward Snowden

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

— Edward Snowden

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

— Edward Snowden

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

— Edward Snowden

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

— Edward Snowden

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

— Edward Snowden

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

— Edward Snowden

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

— Edward Snowden

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about…

— Edward Snowden

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a…

— Edward Snowden

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure…

— Edward Snowden

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.

— Edward Snowden

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

— Edward Snowden

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are…

— Edward Snowden

You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its…

— Edward Snowden

My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I…

— Edward Snowden

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law…

— Edward Snowden

The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity…

— Edward Snowden

The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society…

— Edward Snowden

In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned,…

— Edward Snowden

We have got a CIA station just up the road - the consulate here in Hong Kong - and I am sure…

— Edward Snowden

When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they…

— Edward Snowden

People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental…

— Edward Snowden

Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center…

— Edward Snowden

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the…

— Edward Snowden

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to…

— Edward Snowden

The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or…

— Edward Snowden

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public…

— Edward Snowden

[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but…

— Edward Snowden