Whistleblower Quotes

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

Herve Falciani

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

Laura Poitras

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Glenn Greenwald

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus

J. Scott Savage

#12. 'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

Per Petterson

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

Edward Snowden

#14. I try not to go crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat.

Eva Mendes

#15. Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

Sarah Beth Durst

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

Ron Paul

#17. You say to yourself, 'How can a little girl be a grandmother.' It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Mark Twain

#18. Here's the bottom line - your life matters to this world and the people in it, and it matters to God.

Vance Brown

#19. Beth is the kind of girl you want to stuff into a trunk, wrapped in plastic" - Shane Carver (Quote from: The Carver's Magic)

B.L. Brooklyn

#20. Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Michael Mullen

#21. In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Jon Meacham

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

Edward Snowden