"It is beyond dispute that President Obama and……" — Glenn Greenwald
"It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it."
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82 Quotes by Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald has 82 quotes on this site.
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Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
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History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself…
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The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize…
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The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government]…
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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
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It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
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When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
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A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country,…
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Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
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For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until…
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I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who…
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No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even…
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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has…
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One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like…
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I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major…
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[Nowhere was the feeling of bewilderment and betrayal stronger than among Clinton's political allies -- from cabinet members to White…
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they…
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I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He…
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I've noticed a facinating phenomenon in my thiry years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelvant to the great…
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Reporters covering Bushs second term, under pressure from editors not to use unnamed sources in their stories, started asking their…
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