I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.