Sebastian Junger Quotes

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

In relationships, you want to be secure but not know what's coming next. Everyone has to have secrets, but if I'm asked a question, I'll answer honestly.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

The military rarely errs on the side of openness.

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

If the press knows about a problem, big or small, that problem is far more likely to receive the personal attention of senior policy makers, then if it remains a well-kept secret.

The only way we can do oversight is if people tell the truth.

Over the next decade, the market-driven explosion of surveillance sensors and data analytics will bring an unprecedented level of transparency to global affairs. Commercial satellites will capture daily images of the entire globe, offering inexpensive and automated reports on everything from crop yields to military activity. Journalists, NGOs, and bloggers will increasingly use crowdsourced data to uncover wartime atrocities and expose government hypocrisy. Private security companies will discover the sources of cyberattacks and data theft. Biometric systems will expose the identities of clandestine operatives, and government agencies will struggle to contain leakers and whistleblowers.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I'd like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It's not easy.

I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.

My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.

I welcome a scrutiny of my entire record.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

Since I've been so honest with them, my fans know me very well so I don't think anything surprises them at this point. I've always told them exactly what's going on in my life and in my head, and because of that, I don't think anything is a huge surprise to them anymore.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.