200 Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that’d be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Objectivity” means nothing more than reflecting the biases and serving the interests of entrenched Washington. Opinions are problematic only when they deviate from the acceptable range of Washington orthodoxy.

The genius of America’s endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

He’s the President – it’s the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it’s warranted.

You can’t have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I’d rather have the ten dogs.

Edward Snowden made an audacious claim: “I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.

It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always – not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.

Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of repression, threatening to produce the most extreme and oppressive weapon of state intrusion human history has ever seen.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything – on terrorism, drugs, even poverty – has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?