Best Quotes by Glenn Greenwald (Top 4)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
  4. 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.