Barrett Brown

"Anyone who dismisses out of hand evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies still do some of the things that they now brag about having done not too long ago is not a skeptic, but a fool."

"Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self."

"The less said about my extended family back in ranch country the better, as I don't want the ATF burning them alive."

"I, for instance, am a jackass, and this anguishes me quite a bit, or at least it would if I were not so fond of being a jackass, which has long been a hobby of mine."

"I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence."

"The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground."

"The main point seems to be that I'm arrogant and narcissistic, which should be news to exactly four people."

"I would love to debate any politician in any western state on the question of whether the rule of law ought to be respected in a world where even the most "respectable" governments establish intelligence agencies that routinely violate those laws at taxpayer expense and at no real penalty to anyone involved."

"We're in a state of conflict with the Government. Either we are going to jail or we're going to win."

"What an age of innocence it was, the Watergate era... way back in the halcyon days when the US could be contrasted with totalitarian regimes on matters of surveillance."

"In conclusion, they should let me out of jail."

"Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession."

"This is not the “rule of law”...it is the “rule of law enforcement.”"

"When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves."