All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.