We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.

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

The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.