US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.