Edward Snowden Able Quotations

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.

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.