We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.