The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. — Edward Snowden Court Copy Share Image
When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer. — Edward Snowden Engagement Copy Share Image
I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me. — Edward Snowden Computer Copy Share Image
I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile. — Edward Snowden Exile Copy Share Image
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism. — Edward Snowden Israel Copy Share Image
The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression… — Edward Snowden Creativity 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 Football Copy Share Image
There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability. — Edward Snowden Accountability Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free… — Edward Snowden China Copy Share Image
The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or… — Edward Snowden Actors Copy Share Image
The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and… — Edward Snowden Care Copy Share Image
As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for… — Edward Snowden Access Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism,… — Edward Snowden Activism Copy Share Image
What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and… — Edward Snowden Care Copy Share Image
We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but… — Edward Snowden Abuse Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden Access Copy Share Image
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists. — Edward Snowden Chinese Copy Share Image
We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths. — Edward Snowden Behemoth Copy Share Image
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image