The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

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

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.

[Sovereignty] would break the American monopoly, but it would also break Internet business, because you'd have to have a data center in every country. And data centers are tremendously expensive, a big capital investment.

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