Laura Poitras Quotes

#1. Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Leonard Maltin

#2. The free software community should be supported more widely. I'm totally in solidarity with what they do.

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#3. People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

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#4. In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

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#5. Most of the time doors remain closed simply because they have not been tried to be opened!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures ... All of this? he said, and couldn't help a smile. Yes, all of this. Then she too smiled.

Eowyn Ivey

#7. Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

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#8. We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don't, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.

Denzel Washington

#10. When everything went wrong at once, it felt like folding origami in a hurricane.

Lola Dodge

#11. I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

Laura Poitras

#12. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.

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#13. Appreciation is always appreciated.

Shubham Choudhary

#14. One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

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#15. I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

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#16. These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

Laozi

#17. It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

Laura Poitras

#18. When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

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#19. That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

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#20. The fact that the CIA knew that two of the 9/11 hijackers were entering the United States and didn't notify the FBI and that nobody lost their job is shocking. Instead, we occupied Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. I mean, how did those choices get made?

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#21. In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals ...

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