There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

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

We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.