"[Snowden]'s done a great service, because he's telling the truth and this is what we are starved for. The American people are starved for the truth. And when you have a dictatorship or an authoritarian government, truth becomes treasonous. For somebody to tell the American people the truth is a heroic effort."
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Ron Paul, "For somebody to tell the American people the truth is a heroic effort...he knows it's risky", Piers Morgan - CNN, 10 June 2013.
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