I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

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.

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.