We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone.” — Edward Snowden Faith Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity. — Edward Snowden Creativity Copy Share Image
As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system. — Edward Snowden Giving Copy Share Image
One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets"… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is… — Edward Snowden Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we… — Edward Snowden Campaigns Copy Share Image
Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of… — Edward Snowden Creating Copy Share Image
When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities,… — Edward Snowden Business Copy Share Image
To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do… — Edward Snowden Inspirational Copy Share Image
I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things. — Edward Snowden Ideas Copy Share Image
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do… — Edward Snowden American history Copy Share Image
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're… — Edward Snowden Brazil Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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