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

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability to provide the best and most trusted services in the world if they actually desire to do so.

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."