Culture Quote by Edward Snowden

“I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.”

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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

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Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I…

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

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The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

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[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data…

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You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to…

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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

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A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed…

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Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

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We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

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