Edward Snowden

I was living a charmed life.

— Edward Snowden

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

— Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again.

— Edward Snowden

Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.

— Edward Snowden

Extremists are not going to disappear.

— Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

— Edward Snowden

I'm still working for the government.

— Edward Snowden

There's no saving me.

— Edward Snowden

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

— Edward Snowden

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

— Edward Snowden

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

— Edward Snowden

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

— Edward Snowden

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

— Edward Snowden

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

— Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

— Edward Snowden

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

— Edward Snowden

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

— Edward Snowden

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I…

— Edward Snowden

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

— Edward Snowden

Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.

— Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished…

— Edward Snowden

I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the…

— Edward Snowden

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

— Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when…

— Edward Snowden

At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the…

— 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've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the…

— Edward Snowden

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to…

— Edward Snowden

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges…

— Edward Snowden

The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about…

— Edward Snowden

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon…

— Edward Snowden

Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers…

— Edward Snowden

The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be…

— 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

“I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio,…

— Edward Snowden

A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore -…

— Edward Snowden

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think…

— Edward Snowden

I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have…

— Edward Snowden

If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement…

— Edward Snowden

By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the…

— Edward Snowden