If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

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.

The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."