War Quotes by Edward Snowden

When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but…

— Edward Snowden

Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

— Edward Snowden

When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or…

— Edward Snowden

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin…

— Edward Snowden

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

— Edward Snowden

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority…

— Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help…

— Edward Snowden

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

— Edward Snowden

The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was…

— Edward Snowden

Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if…

— Edward Snowden

Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center…

— Edward Snowden

One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was…

— 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

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

We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale.…

— Edward Snowden

When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the…

— Edward Snowden

The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight…

— Edward Snowden

The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed…

— Edward Snowden

It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who…

— Edward Snowden

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission,…

— Edward Snowden

We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding…

— Edward Snowden