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

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

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

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.

Extremists are not going to disappear.