In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

You're great. You don't need to be sorry for being who you're. You're a miracle. You're a wonder in this generation. Unchain your true self!

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

Television is a young person's medium.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The poor are too busy working to need justice.