388 Quotes by Edward Snowden

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

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we’re going to know that that’s a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

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

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

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

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren’t just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

There’s no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there’s information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they’ll go after that information and they’ll take it.

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.