Congress hasn’t declared war on the countries – the majority of them are our allies – but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we’re not even fighting? Edward Snowden Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life – I don’t like being in the spotlight. Edward Snowden Read Quote
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him… the better off we all are. Edward Snowden Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it’s only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. Edward Snowden Read Quote
For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. Edward Snowden Read Quote
It’s been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it’s true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government’s doing in our name and what it’s doing against us. Edward Snowden Read Quote
When people say, ‘Why don’t you face the music?’ I say, ‘You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.’ Edward Snowden Read Quote
It’s important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it’s also important that we don’t forget, 95 percent of the world’s population lives beyond our own borders. Edward Snowden Read Quote
