The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.

What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few sites; now we've got all these boutiques.