I went to St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg is awesome.

While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.