“After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicat...” — Edward Snowden Quote

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.

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

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

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.

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.

I have a fear of being boring.

When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects.

Let them hate so long as they fear.