We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.
I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.
I was just wondering if I'd ever get a visa to go to the U.S. Probably not.
It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.
Working at GCHQ was a relatively easy, reliable job. As long as you always toe the 'party line', you are more or less guaranteed a job for life.
If a rogue nation were to attack the U.K. physically, I would be a patriot, yes; I would try to defend the U.K.
First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.
I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal court has some guts and charges white war criminals. They need to face justice just like other war criminals.
I know my own flaws only too well.
I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.
If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.
I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.
I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.
I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.
I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.
I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.
When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, they tell you… not to trust journalists, to be careful to keep everything confidential.
I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.
I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, 'We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,' that was a lie.
I did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.
