388 Quotes by Edward Snowden

We have got a CIA station just up the road - the consulate here in Hong Kong - and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

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

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

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

There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in the history of their country where the law provided the Government to do things which were not right.

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

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.