It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

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

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.