They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

The new iPhone encryption does not stop them from accessing copies of your pictures or whatever that are uploaded to, for example, Apple's cloud service, which are still legally accessible because those are not encrypted. It only protects what's physically on the phone.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.