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.

That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously. We only have the rights that we protect. It doesn't matter what we say or think we have. It's not enough to believe in something; it matters what we actually defend.

We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

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