If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.