You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.