In 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 SnowdenIt is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.
Edward SnowdenWe have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.
Edward SnowdenThe question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.
Edward SnowdenIf I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.
Edward Snowden