If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

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

Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.