Katharine Gun

“After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life - and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.”

“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.”

“We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.”

“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.”

“If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.”

“I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.”

“We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.”

“I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.”

“I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.”

“Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child.”

“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.”

“We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.”

“I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.”

“All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.”

“Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing.”

“The whole issue of Iraq has left us with a legacy, which is not good. The ripple effect from that initial invasion is continually being felt in worldwide institutions, in the U.S. and the U.K.”

“I did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.”

“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.”

“In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.”

“I have only ever followed my conscience.”