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I remember when I got my first (and only) iPad - excitement filled the air as I opened the box and stared at what was essentially a big iPhone but without the phone part. I knew I really wanted it, and at the same time, I knew I didn't need it.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.

I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.