The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

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

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."