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What is right is not always the same as what is legal — Edward Snowden

Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud. — Sarah Harrison

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. — Edward Snowden

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act. — Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school. — Edward Snowden

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party ... this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad. — Edward Snowden

I can do more good outside of prison ... This country is worth dying for. — Edward Snowden

If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public — Edward Snowden

Snowden evidently knew of WikiLeaks, a niche transparency website — Luke Harding

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest. — John McAfee

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. — David Chiles

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. — Dave Snowden

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on, — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. — Edward Snowden

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. — Edward Snowden

Sometimes inexplicably the past becomes intermingled with the present — Felicity Snowden

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. — Edward Snowden

To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime? — Glenn Greenwald

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden

I don't play online games...but I love a good mystery. — Felicity Snowden

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run. — Chuck Schumer

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K. — Sarah Harrison

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden. — Barton Gellman

The NSA is correct, 1984 is now. — Michael Gurnow

I Don't care which president is sucking your dick at the moment, I will not be a party to the killing of innocent men! — Brandice Snowden Demon's Veil

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life. — Barton Gellman

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves. — John W. Thompson

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution. — Mark Weisbrot

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. — Edward Snowden

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason. — Neil Patrick Harris

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle. — Stephen Kinzer

You gotta fight for your right ... to party! — Edward Snowden

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations — Glenn Greenwald

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

On December 1, 2012, I received my first communication from Edward Snowden, — Anonymous

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested. — Edward Snowden

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world. — Edward Snowden

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. — Edward Snowden

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes. — Edward Snowden

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk. — Michael Morell

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter. — Edward Snowden

I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American. — Edward Snowden

I'm still working for the government. — Edward Snowden

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most. — Edward Snowden

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions. — Edward Snowden

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden. — Leonard Maltin

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. — Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again. — Edward Snowden

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, — Edward Snowden

Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. — Edward Snowden

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. — Edward Snowden

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all. — Edward Snowden

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest. — Edward Snowden

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. — Barton Gellman

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. — Edward Snowden

I'm not a spy, which is the real question — Edward Snowden

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough. — Edward Snowden

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

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

FBI creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around. — Edward Snowden

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. — Edward Snowden

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing? — Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things. — Edward Snowden

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

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, — Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. — Edward Snowden

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together. — Edward Snowden

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them. — Edward Snowden

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain. — Edward Snowden

I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice. — Lindsey Graham

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden

Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong. — Edward Snowden

The Snowden leaks did cause damage. — Theresa May

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American. — Edward Snowden

Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer. — Luke Harding

I'm worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone.
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So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true. — Edward Snowden

I would rather be without a state than without a voice. — Edward Snowden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. — Edward Snowden

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. — Edward Snowden

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support. — Edward Snowden

Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor? — Michele Bachmann