My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President

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.