I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.
Edward SnowdenI'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.
Edward SnowdenIn liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.
Edward SnowdenAll the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.
Edward SnowdenGoing 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.
Edward SnowdenWhen you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn't make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.
Edward Snowden