[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn't even authorized by law. It's just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan's signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was that all of a sudden these massive, behemoth companies realized their data centers - sending hundreds of millions of people's communications back and forth every day - were completely unprotected, electronically naked.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.