Edward Snowden
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.Collection: People
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.Collection: Nsa
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.Collection: Government
The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption worksCollection: Government
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.Collection: Children
If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.Collection: Fighting
The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.Collection: Greatest Fear
As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.Collection: Queens
When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.Collection: Hands
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.Collection: Nsa
I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and to campaign for reform. I'm just the first to come forward in the manner that I did and succeed.Collection: New York
We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.Collection: Years
I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.Collection: Personal History
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.Collection: Cutting
You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.Collection: Voters
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.Collection: Hero
The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized.Collection: Government
Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.Collection: Latin
US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.Collection: Russia
At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done.Collection: Genuine Concern
Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.Collection: Government
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take the oath in your class when you are on board. All government officials are made to do it who work for the intelligence agencies - at least, that's where I took the oath.Collection: Hands
They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.Collection: Night
We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.Collection: Machines
Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.Collection: Country
In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.Collection: Communication
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.Collection: People
What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.Collection: Years
There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.Collection: Real
Imagine, if you will, you're sitting at my desk in Hawaii. You have access to the entire world, as far as you can see it. Last several days, content of internet communications. Every email that's sent. Every website that's visited by every individual. Every text message that somebody sends on their phone. Every phone call they make.Collection: Communication
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the publicCollection: Government
We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.Collection: Country
I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.Collection: Want
I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.Collection: Real
The new iPhone has encryption that protects the contents of the phone. This means if someone steals your phone - if a hacker or something images your phone - they can't read what's on the phone itself, they can't look at your pictures, they can't see the text messages you send, and so forth. But it does not stop law enforcement from tracking your movements via geolocation on the phone if they think you are involved in a kidnapping case, for example.Collection: Mean
I'm not a spy, which is the real questionCollection: Real
If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance here. We're not going to do that. That's where all of the data centres, all the service providers in the world will relocate to. And I think that gives us a real chance to see a more liberal than authoritarian future.Collection: Country
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?Collection: Government
I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.Collection: World
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.Collection: Government
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.Collection: Fighting
Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.Collection: Sacrifice
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.Collection: Law
We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.Collection: Giving Up
When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.Collection: Talking
If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.Collection: Party
Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.Collection: Self
Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.Collection: Issues
What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.Collection: Country