The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading, — Edward Snowden Administrator Copy Share Image
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. — Edward Snowden Consideration Copy Share Image
We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law." — Edward Snowden Law Copy Share Image
If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the… — Edward Snowden Alive Copy Share Image
US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the… — Edward Snowden Civil liberties Copy Share Image
People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet… — Edward Snowden Access Copy Share Image
What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and… — Edward Snowden Care 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 America Copy Share Image
In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the… — Edward Snowden Access Copy Share Image
“I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think… — Edward Snowden Academic Copy Share Image
I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been. — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number… — Edward Snowden Country Copy Share Image
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them. — Edward Snowden Behavior 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
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I… — Edward Snowden Executive power Copy Share Image
If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience. — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the… — Edward Snowden Alive Copy Share Image
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today. — Edward Snowden Acting Copy Share Image
You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.” — 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
Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. — Edward Snowden Chance Copy Share Image
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![“Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/34b/edward-snowden-555_administration_candidates-run-for-election-on-campaign_737136.jpg)
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![“I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, 'the plane's hitting,' and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the FBI at the time, was in the Pentagon when the plane hit it...I take the threat of terrorism seriously…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e2e/edward-snowden-555_corrupt_i-was-right-outside-the-nsa-on-9-11-so-i_720447.jpg)
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