Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.

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.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.