We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.

Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.