Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
Edward SnowdenCitizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
Edward SnowdenRadicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
Edward SnowdenYou shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.
Edward SnowdenCongress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?
Edward Snowden