"I’m not a traitor. I’m not a spy. I’m a whistleblower."

"I'm not alone."

"I had this idea that if I were to just dump all of this information out into the public, that it would start a public debate."

"I believe that the public has a right to know what their government is doing in their name."

"The government is not some opaque, monolithic entity. It's people. And people make mistakes."