As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.