When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system. — Edward Snowden Giving Copy Share Image
The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do… — Edward Snowden Inspirational Copy Share Image
We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was… — Edward Snowden Computers Copy Share Image
My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to… — Edward Snowden America Copy Share Image
There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not… — Edward Snowden Creating Copy Share Image
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Acting Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and… — Edward Snowden American citizen Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement… — Edward Snowden Bargains 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
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
We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone.” — Edward Snowden Faith 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
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 Creativity Copy Share Image
All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities. — Edward Snowden Community Copy Share Image
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a… — 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
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
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. — Edward Snowden Consideration Copy Share Image
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