Edward Snowden quote: "What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?"

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegatio...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think t...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to po...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

What we've seen over the last decade is we've seen a departure from the traditional work of ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thin...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be comple...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physica...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

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

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

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I have no regrets.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

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

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a w...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who ar...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

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

Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil dis...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

When you use any kind of internet-based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause dama...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word w...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capabil...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and ba...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sa...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that t...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American histor...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of fr...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent som...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and g...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my s...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make i...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more pa...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States govern...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive power...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help f...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel com...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should b...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but withou...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

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

It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplom...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no differ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milesto...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

When you are in positions of privileged access... you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroy...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a po...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

If I had to describe myself, I wouldn't use words like 'hero.' I wouldn't use 'p...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information t...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in Ame...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.
EDWARD SNOWDEN

I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the N...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the wo...
ROSCOE SNOWDEN

That is what he will be best remembered for.
CARL SNOWDEN

Quite candidly, we've had enough of bigots coming into the city.
CARL SNOWDEN

We decided to celebrate the Voting Rights Act by having an African American run in every ward in the...
CARL SNOWDEN

We want to remind voters how precious the franchise is.
CARL SNOWDEN

Under Smith, there was some hope this agreement would be implemented. Personally, I question whether...
CARL SNOWDEN

It just seemed a fitting way to pay tribute. Many people were surprised to learn, as I was, that the...
CARL SNOWDEN

If we all got together and got on the same team, and it was all about saving dollars, we probably co...
GERALD SNOWDEN

The pressure was really great ... I was under the impression that if I did come forward ... there wo...
GERALD SNOWDEN

I think that's where the confusion comes in.
MIKE SNOWDEN

It just seemed a fitting way to pay tribute. Many people were surprised to learn, as I was, that the...
CARL O. SNOWDEN

Under Smith, there was some hope this agreement would be implemented. Personally, I question whether...
CARL O. SNOWDEN

We want to remind voters how precious the franchise is.
CARL O. SNOWDEN

That is what he will be best remembered for.
CARL O. SNOWDEN

Quite candidly, we've had enough of bigots coming into the city.
CARL O. SNOWDEN

We decided to celebrate the Voting Rights Act by having an African American run in every ward in the...
CARL O. SNOWDEN

The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER

More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG

All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG

The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG

One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN

Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT

For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY

كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE

It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON

The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

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