It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A lot of these people are Iraqis fighting for control of their own government. Maybe there's an argument to make that outside… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Above even our physical well-being, a central value is keeping the state out of the private realm—our “persons, houses, papers, and effects,” as the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
