[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.
Edward SnowdenIn America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.
Edward SnowdenThe question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.
Edward SnowdenInitially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.
Edward Snowden