Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

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.