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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
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
— 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
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public
— Edward Snowden
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
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
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
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.
— Edward Snowden
You gotta fight for your right ... to party!
— Edward Snowden
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
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
Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
— Barton Gellman
I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
— Edward Snowden
I'm still working for the government.
— Edward Snowden
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
— Leonard Maltin
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
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.
— 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
I do not expect to see home again.
— 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 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 understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.
— 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
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
I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American.
— Edward Snowden
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
— Edward Snowden
The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.
— Michael Morell
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
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
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 told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,
— 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
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
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 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