United states Quotes by Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

— Edward Snowden

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any…

— Edward Snowden

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts,…

— Edward Snowden

What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United…

— Edward Snowden

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

— Edward Snowden

If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did…

— Edward Snowden

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

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign…

— Edward Snowden

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to…

— Edward Snowden

There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial…

— Edward Snowden

We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we…

— Edward Snowden

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back…

— Edward Snowden

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

We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes.…

— Edward Snowden

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't…

— Edward Snowden

Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even…

— Edward Snowden

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

In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the…

— Edward Snowden

The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not…

— Edward Snowden

If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of…

— Edward Snowden

The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any…

— Edward Snowden

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to…

— Edward Snowden

In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the…

— 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…

— Edward Snowden

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

The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders…

— Edward Snowden

If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing…

— Edward Snowden

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit…

— Edward Snowden

The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.…

— Edward Snowden

US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong…

— Edward Snowden

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

What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this…

— Edward Snowden

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time…

— Edward Snowden