There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that mass surveillance is a violation of rights.

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

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

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

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.