In order to expose a system though, you need whistleblowers.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

— Edward Snowden

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing…

— Anonymous

In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that…

— David Fahrenthold

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're…

— Julian Assange

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are…

— Tom Morello

If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a…

— Edward Snowden

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

— Eugene Scalia

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who…

— Alex Gibney

Whistleblowers play a vital role in ensuring that the federal government is accountable to the people it serves.

— Seth Moulton

As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

— Edward Snowden

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior…

— Margaret Heffernan

“More importantly in my view, the Obama administration has treated whistleblowers with scandalous harshness, especially those from inside the intelligence community. The hardest point…

— Edward Lucas

Whistleblowers is another aspect that needs to be addressed. We have to restore the protections of whistleblowers and also the encouragement and rewards. It…

— Ted Gup

“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it. Telling the…

— Lionel Fisher