I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
From Edward Snowden
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.
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.
I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.
I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
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.
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