Quotes About Whistleblowers

#1. The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

Edward Snowden

#2. Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

Glenn Greenwald

#3. For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.

Sarah Harrison

#4. I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

Tom Morello

#5. I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

Jason Chaffetz

#6. Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#7. Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers' leaks and beat reporters' expertise.

Jeff Jarvis

#8. The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

Margaret Heffernan

#9. Dog's owners don't call me. It's their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it's more like the pack. It's making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it's the community.

Cesar Millan

#10. I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

Shannon Elizabeth

#11. I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

William Monahan

#12. Here's to losing Emerson, and finding Em again! I raised the shot glass in the air.

Kimberly Lauren

#13. Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

Glenn Greenwald

#14. All Rowan now had to offer his queen were the strength of his sword, the depth of his magic, and the loyalty of his heart.
Such things did not win wars.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

Gene Simmons

#16. It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

Laura Poitras

#17. Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as possible. Otherwise, what is it to be grown? Is learning to die, one day at a time.

Sonya Chung

#18. Always choose love

I. Wimana C.

#19. Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.

Herve Falciani

#20. In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million?

Jay Leno

#21. Encouragement activates the strength of sacred being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

Edward Snowden

#23. Attachment is the source of all suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#24. America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Archibald MacLeish

#25. One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America
and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.

Michael Moore