I was living a charmed life.

Nobody's going to vote for Isis.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

I do not expect to see home again.

I'm still working for the government.

Extremists are not going to disappear.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

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

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

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

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

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

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

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

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

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

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

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

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

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.

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

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

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

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

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