All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

A boy trained to break into secure facilities? Perhaps Kowaski wasn't entirely responsible for today's failures after all. Oops.

People only care about winners, No one care about losers

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.