Average Quote by Edward Snowden

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

— Mikko Hypponen

Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate,…

— Edward Snowden

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

— Edward Snowden

“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is…

— Ron Wyden

No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community already knew…

— Edward Snowden

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

— Ron Wyden

“Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to every historical…

— Glenn Greenwald

I'm positively enthusiastic about American surveillance policies.

— Benjamin Wittes

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses…

— Tom A. Watson