Edward snowden

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live...

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...

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being...

Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.