The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

People say that [i'm a celebrity], but I've only had to sign autographs for "civ-libs" types. And I autograph court orders.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

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

Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism, whenever you talk about progressive activity, that sort of moves the measure of liberty in human society forward, makes us all enjoy a better standard of liberty, it typically starts out criminal. It typically starts out a little bit shaky, and rather radical. And that's irrational to put yourself up to do that.

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