I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

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

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.