The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance here. We're not going to do that. That's where all of the data centres, all the service providers in the world will relocate to. And I think that gives us a real chance to see a more liberal than authoritarian future.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

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

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."