I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

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.

Man rejection of the Truth is the root of his rebellion.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

I never won an Oscar...and the Oscars never won Irene Papas.

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.