Edward Snowden Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Names, Perspective

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 23, 2015.

• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I’m Willing to Live Under"". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan González, www.truth-out.org. July 10, 2013.

• I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Rights, Law

  "Edward Snowden: Planned U.S. Cyber Warfare Program Could Hurt Innocent Countries", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

• Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Mean, Government

  "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

• There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and
  gotten very rich.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Numbers, Important

• I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, Dying

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

• We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, War, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

• The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Real, Exercise

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, I Love My Family, Dedicated

  "White House: Snowden 'is not a whistleblower'" by Nick Gass, www.politico.com. September 14, 2016.

• We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Issues, World

  Source: www.thenation.com

• When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community already knew about these people in advance. We know that these countries were involved in intelligence sharing premiums, that they benefited from mass surveillance, and yet they didn't stop the attacks. Yet at the same time we immediately see intelligence officials running to the newspapers and claiming that we need more surveillance, that we need more intrusion, that we need more expense of powers because it could have stopped an attack.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Running, People

• Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Keys, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Serious, Germany

  Source: www.thenation.com

• In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They've had a little bit of a more muscular public response. Now, they haven't been satisfying or really meaningful in any country yet. But they have been engaging.

  Edward Snowden

  Meaningful, Country, Eye

  "Edward Snowden at FutureFest: the full interview". Interview with Geoff Mulgan, www.nesta.org.uk. 2015.

• When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the attacks in Boston. The marathon bombings. Where again, we knew who these individuals were. It didn't stop the Underwear Bomber, whose father walked into an embassy and warned us about this individual before he walked onto an airplane. And it's not going to stop the next attacks either. Because again, they're not public safety programmes. They're spying programmes. They are valuable for spying.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Father, Airplane

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Important, Target

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Country, Real

• You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Somewhere Else, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Rights, Spy

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Government, People

• Congress 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

  Country, Running, War

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

• What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Cyber Attacks, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

• In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the last 10 years that master balance has been in place in the United States, and they found that despite intercepting the calls - everybody in the country, - it had never stopped a single terrorist attack. So the question is, why would these officials be pursuing these policies, if we know they don't work, if they don't stop terrorism?

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Independent, Years

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Ideas, Behalf

  Source: www.thenation.com

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