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.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that mass surveillance is a violation of rights.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.