Quotes by System Administrator of the Authors - Page 1

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I was living a charmed life.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Nobody's going to vote for Isis.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Privacy is a function of liberty.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I do not expect to see home again.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I'm still working for the government.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Extremists are not going to disappear.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

• 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

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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

• Edward Snowden / System Administrator

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