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

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

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.