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It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

The American public has a right to know what's going on.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.