Extremists are not going to disappear.

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

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.