388 Quotes by Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

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

There is a technical solution to every political problem,

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes in intelligence, I can't say for sure. But I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public.

As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.