I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.