I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. — 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
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but… — 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
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers… — 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
Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for… — 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
![“These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72d/edward-snowden-555_diplomatic_these-nsa-programs-were-never-about-terr_2162445.jpg)
![“[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/144/edward-snowden-555_anecdotes_barton-gellman-printed-a-great-anecdote_2686678.jpg)
![“[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. Only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. The idea was to find a kind of a compromise…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/03f/edward-snowden-555_arguing_bill-binney-will-argue-with-you-all-day_1448117.jpg)
![“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5af/edward-snowden-555_america_the-great-fear-that-i-have-regarding-the_3003143.jpg)
![“Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8df/edward-snowden-555_causes_some-months-after-keith-alexander-made-t_2842592.jpg)
![“Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e0e/edward-snowden-555_communication_before-2013-if-you-said-the-nsa-was-maki_1387484.jpg)
![“There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/11f/edward-snowden-555_activity_there-are-even-a-few-people-who-still-ho_1391836.jpg)
![“[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 sovereignty."” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af7/edward-snowden-555_brazil_brazil-went-to-the-un-and-said-we-need-n_14906.jpg)
![“There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/104/edward-snowden-555_accounts_there-was-a-real-choice-when-barack-obam_27838.jpg)
