I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.