Edward Snowden Surveillance Quotations

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.