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There was a real choice when a new president arrived, and the quotes stress protecting communications over sweeping legislation. Snowden emphasizes caring for the country more than personal risk, warning that laws must not become political weapons. He also points out that independent knowledge of foreign plans is vital, even if borders blur.

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I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

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I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

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

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My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

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I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

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What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

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I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon…

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Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

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There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number…

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There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in…

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Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in…

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The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity…

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US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a…

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It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every…

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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…

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In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the…

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If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement…

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What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this…

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The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit…

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When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't…

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If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing…

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Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,…

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When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community…

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[Sovereignty] would break the American monopoly, but it would also break Internet business, because you'd have to have a data center in…

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We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

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We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled…

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America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going…

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You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country.…

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The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our…

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There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more.…

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Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and…

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Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data…

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The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders…

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In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the…

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You're not patriotic just because you back whoever's in power today or their policies. You're patriotic when you work to improve the…

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

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If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of…

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Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the…

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Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission,…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

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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…