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

The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.

The new iPhone encryption does not stop them from accessing copies of your pictures or whatever that are uploaded to, for example, Apple's cloud service, which are still legally accessible because those are not encrypted. It only protects what's physically on the phone.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.