There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.