I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation to liberty, we're talking about traditional conservatism - as opposed to today's conservatism, which no longer represents those views.