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" 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 seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. "

Edward Snowden

Power

Fear

Challenge

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" All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. "

" I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, 'Hey, this is not appropriate.' "

" The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy. "

" Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else. "

" I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression. "

" 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 capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics. "

" Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. "

" My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. "

" 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. "

" The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. "

Edward Snowden

Lists

Government

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

" The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. "

" I support a guaranteed basic income. I think we should take care of sick people. I believe women can make their own choices and that the government is at its best when it's building bridges instead of bombs. "

" If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home. "

Edward Snowden

If I Could

Home

" I have no regrets. "

Edward Snowden

Regrets

No Regrets

" 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 under. "

" I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions. "

" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "

" I would rather be without a state than without a voice. "

" Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies. "

" 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. "

" No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. "

" Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else. "

" Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows. "

" It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us. "

" I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that. "

" I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. "

Edward Snowden

Lose

Earth

" Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone. "