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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.

Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
Dissident
Intelligence Analyst
Intelligence Officer
Security Guard
System Administrator
Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.
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I'm still working for the government.
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I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.
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I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, Burn it to the ground.
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I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.
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I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
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If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at that [Vladimir] Putin press conference was not worth the price.
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I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.
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I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
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Where are we going to reject that easy but flawed process of letting the intelligence services do whatever they want? It's inevitable that it will happen. I think it's going to be where Internet businesses go.
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