Edward Snowden Quotes - Page 2

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."