It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — 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
You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual, even without the government having any intent to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — 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
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light. — 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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