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Obviously I'm not prone to leak secrets left, right and centre.

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Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing.

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I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

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In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

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I have only ever followed my conscience.

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I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

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The whole Big Brother vision of the world is looming large.

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Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child.

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I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.

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I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.

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We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.

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If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

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It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.

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Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.

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If a rogue nation were to attack the U.K. physically, I would be a patriot, yes; I would try to defend the…

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The world is moving in a completely fascist, corporate direction. It worries me, it should worry us all.

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Working at GCHQ was a relatively easy, reliable job. As long as you always toe the 'party line', you are more or…

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First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to…

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When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, they tell you... not to trust journalists, to be careful to…

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The Official Secrets Act 1989 may need reforming for the digital era, but I would argue that at its heart there should…

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We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge…

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There was this saying in GCHQ that, if you didn't leave after five years, you stay there for life. It was always…

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You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but…

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After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, 'What on earth had Iraq got to…

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If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the…

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I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said…

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What has to be understood is that most whistle-blowers are not natural activists - this one certainly wasn't. We usually work in…

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I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now,…

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I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

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I wouldn't describe myself as an activist.

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I know my own flaws only too well.

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I was just wondering if I'd ever get a visa to go to the U.S. Probably not.

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I'm just baffled in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to…

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It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

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Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.

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I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.

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I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.

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I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

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We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit…

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I did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.

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