I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change. — Edward Snowden Political Copy Share Image
The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden Cia Copy Share Image
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public… — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time? — Edward Snowden Authoritarian Copy Share Image
I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been. — Edward Snowden Cat Copy Share Image
In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals. — Edward Snowden Change Copy Share Image
If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority… — Edward Snowden Chance Copy Share Image
The new iPhone encryption does not stop them from accessing copies of your pictures or whatever that are uploaded to, for example,… — Edward Snowden Apples Copy Share Image
One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if… — Edward Snowden Battle Copy Share Image
In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the… — Edward Snowden Alliances Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Abolition 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 Communication Copy Share Image
Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how… — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Do you check it when you travel, do you check it when you're just at home? They'd be able to tell something… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,… — Edward Snowden Actors 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 Affair Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them. — Edward Snowden Country Copy Share Image
I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a technical solution to every political problem, — Edward Snowden Inspirational Copy Share Image
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public — Edward Snowden Defected Copy Share Image
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution. — Edward Snowden Constitution Copy Share Image
If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real. — Edward Snowden Acting Copy Share Image
![“I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c7/edward-snowden-555_denied_i-was-hoping-to-catch-vladimir-putin-in_397243.jpg)
