Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

— Edward Snowden

If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations…

— Edward Snowden

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

— 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

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

— Edward Snowden

As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And…

— Edward Snowden

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

— Edward Snowden

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As…

— Edward Snowden

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

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

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

We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept.…

— Edward Snowden

You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a…

— Edward Snowden

On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort…

— Edward Snowden

“This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone.”

— 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

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address.…

— Edward Snowden

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a…

— 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

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in…

— Edward Snowden

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our…

— Edward Snowden

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But…

— Edward Snowden

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number…

— Edward Snowden

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and…

— Edward Snowden

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

— Edward Snowden