There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail.… — 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
There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be… — 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
My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement… — 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
I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk… — 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
![“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)
![“[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/564/edward-snowden-555_amendments_i-watch-all-that-stuff-game-of-thrones-a_2916560.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)
