It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.

I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.