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If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility back in national capitals.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.