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

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

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

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.

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.

For hearts gone by in times past, unassuming, with not even a glance. In another lifetime, perhaps

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.