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

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.

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.

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.

Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.

If it isn't broken don't try to fix it

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality was in Vancouver until I went back to L.A. for a weekend and I literally felt like I was breathing fire.

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.