I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

I do not expect to see home again.

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.