"I'm not a hero. I'm just a guy who saw something wrong and decided to do something about it."

"I mean, how many times have we heard, 'If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear'? And it's a very simple argument, and it's a very easy argument to sort of understand. But that argume…"

"I'm not a politician, I'm a human being."

"The surveillance state is a threat to human dignity."

"I believe that the internet is the most powerful tool for freedom that we have ever had."