The Whistleblower Quotes

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

Glenn Greenwald

#2. They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

Elena Ferrante

#3. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.

Edward Snowden

#4. 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

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

Herve Falciani

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

Laura Poitras

#7. I'm worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone.
Ron Paul

Ron Paul

#8. That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

Julian Assange

#9. Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write.

Sarah Harrison

#10. These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Edward Snowden

#11. My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#12. As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

Ron Kind

#13. The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

Glenn Greenwald