Edward Snowden Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, Direct Action, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

• A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, People, Promise

  "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.

• Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Party, Sacrifice

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

• A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, People, Promise

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Party, Mad

• We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.thenation.com

• People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."

  Edward Snowden

  Party, Sunday, Agency

  Source: www.thenation.com

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