We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the… — 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
All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand 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
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
A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our… — 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
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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