Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed — Edward Snowden Consent Copy Share Image
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter. — Edward Snowden China Copy Share Image
If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real. — Edward Snowden Acting Copy Share Image
A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading, — Edward Snowden Administrator Copy Share Image
The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law." — Edward Snowden Law Copy Share Image
I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been. — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number… — Edward Snowden Country Copy Share Image
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them. — Edward Snowden Behavior Copy Share Image
Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for… — Edward Snowden Back doors Copy Share Image
The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more… — Edward Snowden America Copy Share Image
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17… — Edward Snowden Girlfriend Copy Share Image
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.… — Edward Snowden Around the world Copy Share Image
When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
An investigation found the specific people who authorized the warrantless wiretapping of millions and millions of communications, which per count would have… — Edward Snowden Communication Copy Share Image
Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how… — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Affair Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Action Copy Share Image
Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,… — Edward Snowden Actors Copy Share Image
I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a technical solution to every political problem, — Edward Snowden Inspirational Copy Share Image
There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution. — Edward Snowden Constitution Copy Share Image
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public — Edward Snowden Defected Copy Share Image
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. — Edward Snowden Consideration Copy Share Image
We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image