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

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.