Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing w….

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light..

Privacy is a function of liberty..

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them..

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the gov….

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power..

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendshi….

My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin ….

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so t….

Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has bee….

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped..

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 h….

Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, y….

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveilla….

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from sta….

It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with ….

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity..

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be..

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works..

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter.".

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 b….