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List of Edward Snowden Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 461 inspiring quotes by Edward Snowden.

About Edward Snowden

  • Born: June 21, 1983
  • Occupation: System Administrator
    • Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the internet.
    Makeup Sea Internet
    Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?
    Technology Past Government
    I don't think i have committed a crime outside the domain of the us.
    Thinking Crime Domain
    I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. but these issues have to be addressed.
    Issues Communist Radical
    When we look at how, constitutionally, only congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. not nato or the un, but congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.
    War Looks Ignored
    Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.
    President Citizens Movement
    People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. they are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians.
    Sea Organization Issues
    [bill] binney will argue with you all day about thinthread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. the idea was to find a kind of a compromise between [privacy rights and] the assertion that if you don't collect things as they happen, you won't have them later - because what the nsa really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation.
    Nsa Ideas Keys
    People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. so as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.
    Rights People Support
    People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these sunday shows and they say: "snowden was a traitor. he works against americans. he works for the chinese. oh, wait, he left hong kong - he works for the russians."
    Party Sunday Agency
    As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to occupy wall street. as tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. but that moment is not now.
    Wall People Moments
    We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. there has always been terrorism.
    Terrorism Threat
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