Katharine Gun

Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me - and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evidence…

— Katharine Gun

I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was…

— Katharine Gun

It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.

— Katharine Gun

I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.

— Katharine Gun

If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the…

— Katharine Gun

After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, 'What on earth had Iraq got to…

— Katharine Gun

I know my own flaws only too well.

— Katharine Gun

I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal…

— Katharine Gun

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but…

— Katharine Gun

I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.

— Katharine Gun

I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.

— Katharine Gun

I felt guilty - like, I leaked this memo, and now there's going to be a witch hunt for the person who…

— Katharine Gun

I did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.

— Katharine Gun

Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing.

— Katharine Gun

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

— Katharine Gun

I wouldn't describe myself as an activist.

— Katharine Gun

I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said…

— Katharine Gun

I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.

— Katharine Gun

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of…

— Katharine Gun

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

— Katharine Gun

What has to be understood is that most whistle-blowers are not natural activists - this one certainly wasn't. We usually work in…

— Katharine Gun

Obviously I'm not prone to leak secrets left, right and centre.

— Katharine Gun

The world is moving in a completely fascist, corporate direction. It worries me, it should worry us all.

— Katharine Gun

First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to…

— Katharine Gun

There was this saying in GCHQ that, if you didn't leave after five years, you stay there for life. It was always…

— Katharine Gun