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1. "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 government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so." ~ Glenn Greenwald

2. "Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: 'I had and have no involvement with our Iraq policy'. I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place.'Ledeen, however, wrote in August 2002 of 'the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein' and when he was interviewed for Front Page Magazine the same month and asked, 'Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade Iraq, then when do we do so?' Ledeen replied: 'Yesterday.' There is obvious, substantial risk in falsely claiming that one opposed the Iraq War notwithstanding a public record of support. But that war has come to be viewed as such a profound failure that that risk, at least in the eyes of some, is outweighed by the prospect of being associated with Bush's invasion." ~ Glenn Greenwald

3. "He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted." ~ Glenn Greenwald

4. "I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is." ~ Glenn Greenwald

5. "A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it." ~ Glenn Greenwald

6. "Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break the law, that he is more powerful than the law." ~ Glenn Greenwald

7. "As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing" ~ Glenn Greenwald

8. "It's really encouraging and inspiring to be around a gathering of so many people ... who really are committed to that vision." (While addressing the American Socialist Party, 2011)" ~ Glenn Greenwald

9. "Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs." ~ Glenn Greenwald

10. "It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein." ~ Glenn Greenwald

11. "Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data." ~ Glenn Greenwald

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

13. "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." ~ Glenn Greenwald

14. "Fearlessness can be its own form of power." ~ Glenn Greenwald

15. "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." ~ Glenn Greenwald

16. "It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it." ~ Glenn Greenwald

17. "When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies." ~ Glenn Greenwald

18. "If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce." ~ Glenn Greenwald

19. "It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process." ~ Glenn Greenwald

20. "My inbox is the enemy." ~ Glenn Greenwald

21. "My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses." ~ Glenn Greenwald

22. "Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy." ~ Glenn Greenwald

23. "Surveillance breeds conformity." ~ Glenn Greenwald

24. "The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image." ~ Glenn Greenwald

25. "The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform." ~ Glenn Greenwald

26. "You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs." ~ Glenn Greenwald

27. "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 and uncritically repeat what government officials say." ~ Glenn Greenwald

28. "A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts." ~ Glenn Greenwald

29. "An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power." ~ Glenn Greenwald

30. "As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own term for its drone kills - 'bug splat,' which happens to be the name of a children's video game - and other evidence negates that." ~ Glenn Greenwald

31. "Embedded in 'The New York Times''s institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions." ~ Glenn Greenwald

32. "Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable." ~ Glenn Greenwald

33. "Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, 'Salon''s editors unfailingly stood behind my work." ~ Glenn Greenwald

34. "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 state to enforce those preferences." ~ Glenn Greenwald

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

36. "For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election." ~ Glenn Greenwald

37. "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?" ~ Glenn Greenwald

38. "A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war." ~ Glenn Greenwald

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

40. "American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it." ~ Glenn Greenwald

41. "I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are." ~ Glenn Greenwald

42. "The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist." ~ Glenn Greenwald

43. "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, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function." ~ Glenn Greenwald

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