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 care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.

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

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

There's no saving me.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.