The charges [government] brought against me, for example…

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

— Edward Snowden

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not…

— Edward Snowden

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are…

— Edward Snowden

I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents…

— Edward Snowden

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

— Edward Snowden

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

— Edward Snowden

I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional…

— Edward Snowden

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public…

— William Peter Hamilton

RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall…

— Sean Lemass

“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with…

— Thomas Sowell

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson

“People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it? Whether it…

— Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

— Howard Gossage

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

— Archibald Cox