You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.

That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.

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

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

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