Edward Snowden Quotes
You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care very much about those values.
Snowden, Edward. "Here's how we take back the Internet." TED, TED Conferences, Mar. 2014.
1837 Grim and his brother were faculty members at the prestigious University of Gottingen. The King of Hanover—a region of Germany—revoked the existing liberal constitution and demanded that all university professors swear allegiance to him. Most of the faculty had always opposed such loyalty oaths, but when faced with the choice between their beliefs and their jobs, most signed the oath. The Grimm brothers did not and were fired.
He had advocated the removal of the Assad regime in Syria which had been murdering its own citizens. However Assad had kept peace with Israel and many in America and Israel feared that if Assad fell, the Iranians would be strengthened and perhaps be the dominant force in Syria. And theocratic Iran had vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. The interviewer had asked Peres if it might be a better strategy for Israel to support Assad?
He was one of only 4 Republicans who voted to allow gay marriage when it was a major plank in the Republican Party Platform to oppose single sex marriage. The senator was told by colleagues that his seat was in danger.
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former computer intelligence consultant who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
