Glenn Greenwald Quotes

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

My words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.'

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.