We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.