The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to… — 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
What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — 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
There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us… — 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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