I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President

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

The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications.