Snowden Quotes - Page 2

• The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and I've said this from the beginning: it's not about me. I don't care if I get clemency. I don't care what happens to me.

  Edward Snowden

  New York, Keys, Care

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• 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."

  Edward Snowden

  Party, Sunday, Agency

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they're like, "Snowden?!"

  Edward Snowden

  Glasses, Brain, Association

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Security Systems, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the reach of the spy services into the lives of most Americans. More importantly, he was denounced as being part of a generation that unfortunately combined being educated with a distrust of authority.

  Henry Giroux

  Spy, Important, Generations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors, even though they have exposed the corruption, lawlessness and host of antidemocratic practices engaged in by established governments. Police can take DNA samples of all people arrested of a crime, whether they are proven guilty or not. The United States is incarcerating people in record numbers, imprisoning over 2.3 million inmates while 6 million people at any one time [are] under carceral supervision - more than were in Stalin's Gulag.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Dna, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as critically engaged citizens rather than assume that knowledge and education are merely about the learning of skills - a reductive concept that substitutes training for education and reinforces the flight from reason and the goose-stepping reflexes of an authoritarian mindset.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Thinking, Skills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Answers, Landscape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.

  Zachary Quinto

  Integrity, Information, Action

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

  Zachary Quinto

  United States, Eric, Public Service

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights.

  Zachary Quinto

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Eric Holder, our attorney general, says the Mr. Snowden will be brought to justice. Just as soon as we can find someone who can track his calls and read his emails.

  Bill Maher

  Track, Justice, Email

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• I think we do sympathize. And a lot of us think a lot of what Snowden did was great, and you're abetting him. But, we also think, well, if we are going to have someone who is going to be the one to take secret materials and disseminate it...why you? You weren't elected to that post. That seems to be what the question always comes down to.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Secret, Wells

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• Do I believe Edward Snowden contributed to the rise of ISIS? Yes. Would they have gotten there without the help he provided them? Probably. Would they have been able to conduct this attack in Paris without him? Maybe. So the honest answer is I don't know.

  Michael Morell

  Believe, Isis, Paris

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Opposites

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 23, 2015.

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• The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.

  Ron Paul

  Speaks Out, Nsa, Government

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Moving, Russia, Government

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• Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald

  Nsa, Whistleblowers, Surveillance

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.115, Signal

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• The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Oscars, Treason, Subjects

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• We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only a threat to privacy but to democracy, when the most important decisions made affect all of us. Thank you to Edward Snowden. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Support, Democracy

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• My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Government, Views

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• where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

  Joseph Heller

  Yesteryear

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

  Satya Nadella

  Clouds, Light, Needs

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• A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Rights, Government, Numbers

  "About the Reuters article" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2013.

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• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Worst Nightmares, Doe

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