The only reason I do these interviews - I hate talking about myself, I hate doing this stuff - is because incredibly well-meaning people, whom I respect and trust, tell me that this will help bring about positive changes. It's not going to cause a sea change, but it will benefit the public.
Edward SnowdenI built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.
Edward SnowdenA given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.
Edward SnowdenI understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.
Edward SnowdenWe have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.
Edward SnowdenWe have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.
Edward SnowdenWe have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.
Edward Snowden