Edward Snowden Quotes
Top 82 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Edward Snowden on Wise Famous Quotes.
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party ... this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.
Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.
The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.
So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading,
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.
You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.
We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.
When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.
US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.
The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.
I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.
I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.
I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.
We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.
You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.
The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.