Protect Quotes by Edward Snowden

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

— Edward Snowden

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

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

— Edward Snowden

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

— Edward Snowden

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

[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

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

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

— Edward Snowden

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

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

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

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

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in…

— Edward Snowden

If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire…

— Edward Snowden

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree…

— Edward Snowden