Edward Snowden Quotes

“You realize that you might be willing to accept any risks and it doesn’t matter what the outcome is.” —Edward Snowden”

— Andreas Kollender

Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.

— Sarah Harrison

I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a…

— Peter Gabriel

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

— Leonard Maltin

My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K.

— Sarah Harrison

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

— Stephen Kinzer

“Darling, what I wouldn't give for some friends as wild and maniacal as dear sweet Edward Snowden.”

— Jarett Kobek

Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here.…

— John F. Kerry

If you listen to the newsmen who are bought and paid for by defense contractors, they'll tell you that Edward Snowden is…

— Jimmy Dore

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything.…

— Henry Rollins

I was aware of it but I think I was aware of it abstractly, theoretically. You know I understood who Edward Snowden…

— Zachary Quinto

Edward Snowden copied and leaked information from inside the world's most protected spy agency, and then fled to Russia, but yet, because…

— Michael Wolff

Do I believe Edward Snowden contributed to the rise of ISIS? Yes. Would they have gotten there without the help he provided…

— Michael Morell

Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of…

— Sarah Harrison

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he…

— Rand Paul

“Group minds are a result of collective discussion and working out of a consensus, which can be listened to (unlike an unreadable…

— Peter Turchin

We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only…

— Laura Poitras

The situation they [journalists and Edward Snowden] were in was incredibly heightened. The stakes were high. There was a lot of pressure,…

— Zachary Quinto

It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I…

— Zachary Quinto

I had traveled to Russia and met with Snowden, which was a pretty involved meeting that required encrypted communication and the like.…

— Jared Leto

It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the…

— Henry Giroux

Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden…

— Michael Morell

“Much of the left—which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community’s unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national…

— Michael Wolff

“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for…

— Daniel Ellsberg

The fact that Edward Snowden didn't approach the New York Times hurt a lot. It meant two things. Morally, it meant that…

— Dean Baquet

The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors,…

— Henry Giroux

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Eric Spiegel, the head of Siemens’ US arm, laid out a vision not that far removed from Ms Huang’s when he spoke…

— Anonymous

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.

— Barton Gellman

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

— Jake Tapper

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

— Michael Morell

“I'm worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone. --Ron Paul”

— Ron Paul

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

— Zachary Quinto

“Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights.

— David Chiles

Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.

— Zal Batmanglij

This guy [Edward Snowden] was a patriot. He believed very strongly in his beliefs and what he was doing for his country.…

— Scott Eastwood

We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.

— Sergei Lavrov

Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while…

— Arthur L. Herman