We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up.

The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.

The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.