You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

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.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.