We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the… — 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… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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… — 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
I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama]… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the… — 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
![“I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa4/edward-snowden-555_administration_i-don-t-think-it-s-going-to-be-related-t_2704672.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)