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 Blessing Copy Share Image
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts… — Edward Snowden Big impact Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Authoritarian Copy Share Image
The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When… — Edward Snowden Access Copy Share Image
I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner… — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were… — Edward Snowden Awareness Copy Share Image
Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the… — Edward Snowden Community Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that… — Edward Snowden Communication Copy Share Image
There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our… — Edward Snowden Ability 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 Attention Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that… — Edward Snowden Ability Copy Share Image
I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's… — 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
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 Boston Copy Share Image
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is… — Edward Snowden Consent Copy Share Image
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more.… — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest,… — Edward Snowden Acting Copy Share Image
It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to… — Edward Snowden Disenchanted Copy Share Image
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Acting Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and… — Edward Snowden American citizen Copy Share Image
Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data… — 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… — Edward Snowden Boys Copy Share Image
I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama]… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
![“It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was something other than he intended. That's something [NSA whistleblower] Bill Binney and I share.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/edward-snowden-555_axes_it-s-interesting-that-you-mention-andrei_2123410.jpg)
![“There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/edward-snowden-555_activity_there-are-even-a-few-people-who-still-ho_1391836.jpg)
![“What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/edward-snowden-555_attention_what-the-nsa-really-wants-is-the-capabil_920203.jpg)
![“The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there's a probable cause for that infringement of our rights.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/edward-snowden-555_causes_the-problem-is-when-the-state-monitor-al_2819584.jpg)
![“If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/544/edward-snowden-555_ball-player_if-congress-is-going-to-investigate-base_388233.jpg)
![“I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa4/edward-snowden-555_administration_i-don-t-think-it-s-going-to-be-related-t_2704672.jpg)