We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

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

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.

I describe it as tribalism because they're very tightly woven communities. Lack of civility is part of it, because that's how Internet tribes behave. We see this more and more in electoral politics, which have become increasingly poisonous.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

I was living a charmed life.