Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

Leon Wieseltier

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Jose Antonio Vargas

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Jon Krakauer

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Emraan Hashmi

I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.

Emilio Estevez

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

William Least Heat-Moon

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

William Butler Yeats

I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun

Winona LaDuke

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

Robert Mueller

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

Lindsey Graham

I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice.

Edward Snowden

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

Angela Merkel

We need trust among allies and partners. Such trust now has to be built anew.

Michele Bachmann

Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

Glenn Greenwald

What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world. None of this has anything to do with terrorism. Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?

Jay Carney

... Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information

Harry Reid

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.