Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

All I was was a mechanism.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.