200 Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

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

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

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 public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who were devoted to justice, the persistence of inequality was precisely what made equality before the law so imperative.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.