We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.
Edward SnowdenRadicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
Edward SnowdenThe 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.
Edward SnowdenThe charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.
Edward SnowdenNobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Edward Snowden