The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.