Gabriel Sol: Optic Nerve. It's camera and mic activation. I wish we could take credit, but the Brits wrote it. Yeah, her laptop's off. Or was, she just forgot to close it. Of course, how would she know? This shit is so sly, the webcam light doesn't even turn on.
Edward Snowden: No matter who you are, every day of your life, you're sitting in a database just ready to be looked at.
Edward Snowden: And it's just gonna get worse for the next generation, as they extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression.
Hank Forrester: You would think intelligence would count for something in the intelligence business. Right. But you wanna know what it really is? What really sets the agenda? Military industrial happiness management. You keep the coffers open in Congress, you keep the money flowing to the contractors.
Barack Obama: That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.
Barack Obama: Every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.
Corbin O'Brian: Most Americans don't want freedom, they want security.
Corbin O'Brian: What's the first rule of battle?
Edward Snowden: Never reveal your position.
Trevor James: You know it. We track 'em, you whack 'em.
Lindsay Mills: What is it about this fucking job that makes it more important than your life?
Edward Snowden: Look, Mr. MacAskill, uh, this is not about money or anything for me. There's no hidden agenda. I just wanted to get this data to established journalists like yourselves, so that you can present it to the world, and the people can decide either I'm wrong or there's something going on inside the government that's really wrong.
Thomas Drake: To other whistleblowers, to others in the government, not to speak out. Do not tell truth to power. We'll hammer you.
