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Government Quotes by Glenn Greenwald
- The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called…
- The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact,…
- No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear…
- There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal,…
- Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S.…
- Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they…
- A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the…
- It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind…
- Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal…
- Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
- Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as…
- Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the…
- A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down…
- The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea…
- Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
- The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
- I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the…
- The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity…
More Government Quotes
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida