You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".

Born to sell :)

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.