I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we as the public trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives?

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.

Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.

You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, "I don't need them in this context" or "I can't understand this," they are no longer rights.

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

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.