When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.

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

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'