Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

I was living a charmed life.

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 acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.