And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.
Edward SnowdenWe have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.
Edward SnowdenWhen you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
Edward SnowdenWhen the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.
Edward Snowden