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
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Where are we going to reject that easy but flawed process of letting the intelligence services do whatever they want? It's inevitable… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. — 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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