The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.