When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.