Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society.

The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

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

The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly, how they're redefining the boundaries of our rights and our liberties, broadly, socially, and categorically without our involvement.

All I was was a mechanism.