Anecdotes Quote by Edward Snowden

“The NSA?" "Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how…

— Andy Weir

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 quotes from…

— Edward Snowden

“The NSA had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region…

— Stieg Larsson

It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was something other…

— Edward Snowden

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning…

— Laura Poitras

“A couple of years ago, I ran into someone at a trade show who was representing the NSA (National Security Agency). He mentioned to…

— Larry Wall

I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it from stage.

— Jim Norton

“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the 1960s, the…

— Edward Lucas

We don't believe that you have to broadcast and use profanity. It shows a lack of a vocabulary really.

— Harry Clay Weaver

Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

— Lionel Shriver

“More remarkable is the fact that in country after country, revelations that the NSA was spying on hundreds of millions of their citizens produced…

— Glenn Greenwald

“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of…

— Glenn Greenwald