Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
Edward SnowdenI read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.
Edward SnowdenI was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.
Edward SnowdenOn the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles.
Edward Snowden