And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.
Edward SnowdenWe don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.
Edward SnowdenIt is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
Edward SnowdenWe are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.
Edward Snowden