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- I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.
- The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.
- America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power…
- As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any…
- A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment…
- A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.
- If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public
- They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from and they have…
- Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to…
- We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.
- Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.
- I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that…
- If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want.…
- I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
- If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst…
- The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested…
- Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people…
- All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left…
- All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me.…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle