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

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.

I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate, but we've got official paralysis - because they're the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar.