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.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.

Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.

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