Diplomatic Quote by Edward Snowden

“I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“much of the data collection conducted by the NSA has manifestly nothing to do with terrorism or national security. Intercepting the communications of the…

— Glenn Greenwald

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening…

— Edward Snowden

To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and…

— Edward Snowden

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

— Edward Snowden

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

— Matt Drudge

Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged human rights…

— Noam Chomsky

“It is important not to concentrate the defence case too narrowly on terrorism. That is a grave threat, but not the only one. Invoking…

— Edward Lucas

My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.

— Natan Sharansky

The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability…

— Ted Cruz

“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any…

— Bruce Schneier

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA…

— Michael Gerson