Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

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.

How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Miracle is a pure assumption, all it happens by choice of situations.

America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

Happiness never becomes a habit.

I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

I have disassociated myself from that book.