Birth: April 7, 1931
You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth..
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see….
I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I ….
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his go….
We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it..
Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the….
It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled..
It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned..
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule..
If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or withi….
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a ….
The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurp….
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely in….
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it….
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above al….
EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time..
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us..
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam..
But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be ….
It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the admin….
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the ….