As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

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

If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

The only reason I do these interviews - I hate talking about myself, I hate doing this stuff - is because incredibly well-meaning people, whom I respect and trust, tell me that this will help bring about positive changes. It's not going to cause a sea change, but it will benefit the public.