Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

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.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

No matter how much you may want to think of Holdém as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.