Edward Snowden Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Years, Nsa

• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Powerful, Agency, Nsa

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

• People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Jail, Agreement, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

  Edward Snowden

  Powerful, Agency, Risk

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

  Edward Snowden

  Risk, Prison, Ifs

  "The damning truth about Snowden: Traitor who put Western lives at risk from terrorists reveals he didn't even read all the top-secret files he leaked". Interview with John Oliver, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 6, 2015.

• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Insecurity

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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