Glenn Greenwald: You know, I think one of the things that happens is that people's courage in this regard gets contagious, and so although I and the other journalists with whom I was working were certainly aware of the risk — the United States continues to be the most powerful country in the world and doesn't appreciate it when you disclose thousands of their secrets on the Internet at will — seeing somebody who is a 29-year-old ordinary person who grew up in a very ordinary environment exercise the degree of principled courage that Edward Snowden risked, knowing that he was going to go to prison for the rest of his life or that his life would unravel, inspired me and inspired other journalists and inspired, I think, people around the world, including future whistleblowers, to realize that they can engage in that kind of behavior as well.
Glenn Greenwald: Znaš, mislim  da je jedna od stvari koja se događa je da ljudska hrabrost  u ovom slučaju postaje zarazna i premda ja i drugi novinari  s kojima sam radio sigurno jesmo bili svjesni rizika — Sjedinjene države i dalje su najmoćnija država na svijetu i ne cijene kada otkrijete tisuće njihovih tajni na Internetu, svojevoljno — vidjeti nekoga tko je 29-godišnja obična osoba odrasla u vrlo običnim okolnostima kako prakticira stupanj principijelne hrabrosti kakvu je riskirao Snowden, znajući da će otići u zatvor do kraja života ili da će mu se čitav život raspasti, nadahnulo me i nadahnulo druge novinare i nadahnulo, smatram, ljude diljem svijeta, uključujući buduće zviždače, da shvate kako se i oni mogu uključiti u takav oblik ponašanja.