I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face. I did what I did because I believe it is the right thing to do, and I will continue to do that.

I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

I saw things that reached a point that I could no longer conscientiously participate with them. And I simply do what I could to allow the public to make a better decision about whether or not these things should continue.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.