Edward Snowden Quotes
The greatest fear I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.
The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.
Saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.
Mass surveillance isn’t about stopping terrorism, it’s about control.
You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they’re such powerful adversaries.
I thought I could live in sort of a bubble and that nobody would be interested in what an NSA analyst did.
The truth is that the NSA’s surveillance capabilities are almost unlimited.
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it’s only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.
The NSA’s business is the business of destroying privacy.
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name or the ‘consent of the governed’ is meaningless.
When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.
The journalists are the only ones actually standing up and saying,