America Quote by Edward Snowden

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

— Ferdinand Marcos

The Russians invaded Georgia in 2008 and my mum got stuck and had to be airlifted back to the capital by the UN because…

— Katie Melua

I was sent to Russia in 1994 by the Clinton administration to meddle in Russian elections and stayed seven years doing it.

— Michael Caputo

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— Aldrich Ames

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

— Benazir Bhutto

If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public

— Edward Snowden

I was on the Mekong River between the border of Thailand and Laos. I was there to find the elusive Mekong giant catfish but…

— Jeremy Wade

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

— Andrew Young

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

— Fred Korematsu

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer…

— Luke Harding

I remember I want for a shoot in Tbilisi and my entire Indian crew was allowed to go. But I was stopped because of…

— Saba Qamar