US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly, how they're redefining the boundaries of our rights and our liberties, broadly, socially, and categorically without our involvement.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.