You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.