Some Americans don't understand why I should be this concerned about the power of government. But talking to people in Eastern Europe, you don't have to explain it to them. They already get it-- and they don't understand why we don't.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Trying to stop this is like trying to legislate the tides and the weather.

Advances in technology will not permit the maintenance of the status quo, as far as privacy is concerned.