Glenn Greenwald Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.
I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?
Your personal life is now known as Facebook's data. Its CEO's personal life is now known as mind your own business.
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." After
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.
He's the President - it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.
Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.
Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group.
[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.
When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.
In the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.
The job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.
Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.
Now I would almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, who's the journalist who seems to want to help him get to Ecuador.
What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.
Was a full-throated harangue, a typical performance when American officials speak about a regime not aligned with the United States.
If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.
It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.
I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.
The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.