I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

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.

The things that you consistently think of yourself and your abilities will always overwrite the things that people say about you.

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little

We are in the same boat

(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

Honestly, what is ageism really, you know? If you take care of yourself and you feel good then that's really all that matters at the end of the day.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.