We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you,… — 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
You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're… — Edward Snowden 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 have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications… — Edward Snowden 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
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 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
We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
