Able Quotes by Edward Snowden

US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

— Edward Snowden

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

— Edward Snowden

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era,…

— Edward Snowden

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a…

— Edward Snowden

I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and…

— Edward Snowden

All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing…

— Edward Snowden

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and…

— Edward Snowden

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch…

— 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…

— Edward Snowden

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,…

— Edward Snowden

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to…

— Edward Snowden

Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after…

— Edward Snowden

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our…

— Edward Snowden

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

Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But…

— Edward Snowden

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to…

— Edward Snowden

I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a…

— Edward Snowden

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical…

— Edward Snowden

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