Edward Snowden Quotes

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights ...

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, ...

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when l...

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrif...

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help f...

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot mean...

We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. A...

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should b...

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on ...

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The questio...

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the pla...

That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connec...

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under obser...

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not...

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic ...

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplom...

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of fr...

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w...

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no differ...

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence...

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the rig...

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely fre...

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American histor...