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 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

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 TV is obsolete technology for me.

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

Extremists are not going to disappear.