Glenn Greenwald Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do.”

“Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.”

“The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.”

“The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.”

“The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.”

“Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.”

“I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible.”

“If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.”

“It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.”

“My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.”