If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.