Iemasa Kayumi

Chief Nakamura: "Nonsense! There's no proof at all that you are a living, thinking life form!"
Puppet Master: "And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?"

Major Motoko Kusanagi: "You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself."
Puppet Master: "There isn't one. Why would you wish to? All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."

Chief Aramaki: "What is it? Artificial intelligence?"
Puppet Master: "Incorrect. I am not AI. My codename is project two-five-zero-one. I am a living, thinking entity that was created in the sea of information."

"I refer to myself as an intelligent life form because I am sentient and I am able to recognize my own existence, but in my present state I am still incomplete. I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms: reproducing and dying."

"As a sentient lifeform, I hereby demand political asylum."

"We have been subordinate to our limitations until now. The time has come to cast aside these bonds and to elevate our consciousness to a higher plane. It is time to become a part of all things."