The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that kind of thing. I don't care if it's a pope or a bin Laden. As long as investigators must go to a judge - an independent judge, a real judge, not a secret judge - and make a showing that there's probable cause to issue a warrant, then they can do that. And that's how it should be done.