The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

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.

Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.