Government Spying Quotes

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.

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.

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

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

I do not expect to see home again.

We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

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.