Edward Snowden Quotes - Page 12

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• The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

  Edward Snowden

  Israel, Nsa, Together

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• The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

  Edward Snowden

  Night, Government Spying, Able

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations" by lenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• There's no saving me.

  Edward Snowden

  Saving

  "NSA Leaker Brought His Story to the Washington Post First, Says Washington Post" by Adam Martin and Joe Coscarelli, nymag.com. June 10, 2013.

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• You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

  Edward Snowden

  Voters, Information, Negative

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Government, Individual

  "Special Report: Inside the Mind of Edward Snowden" with Brian Williams, www.archives.nbclearn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Personal History, Reputation, Familiar

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• The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.

  Edward Snowden

  Cutting, Community, Administration

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• I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Government, Russian Government

  "Traitor or Patriot? Edward Snowden Sits Down With Brian Williams". www.nbcnews.com. May 28, 2014.

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• It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was something other than he intended. That's something [NSA whistleblower] Bill Binney and I share.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Axes, Nsa

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• [Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Trying, Encryption

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• I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and to campaign for reform. I'm just the first to come forward in the manner that I did and succeed.

  Edward Snowden

  New York, People, Office

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done.

  Edward Snowden

  Genuine Concern, Government, Information

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Nsa, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Nsa, Sky

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• There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Accountability

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

  Edward Snowden

  Machines, Goes On, Safe

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

  Edward Snowden

  Anarchist

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 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

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• I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

  Edward Snowden

  Suffering, Government Spying, Information

  "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking", www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

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• If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

  Edward Snowden

  Boston, Ideas, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Extremists are not going to disappear.

  Edward Snowden

  Disappear, Extremist

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Next Week, Long, Government Spying

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Media, Political

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• By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

  Edward Snowden

  Ideas, Lines, Loses

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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