In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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