Edward Snowden Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.”

“Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.”

“The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.”

“I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.”

“My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.”

“If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.”

“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.”

“Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.”

“We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.”

“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.”