James Risen quotes

“Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,”
-- James Risen

Source : "James Risen: Obama hates the press" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 6, 2014.

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“The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.”
-- James Risen

Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old.”
-- James Risen

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“To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.”
-- James Risen

Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.”
-- James Risen

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“I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old.”
-- James Risen

Source : "James Risen's risk of prison means journalism is being criminalised" by Lindsey Bever, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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“Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012

“If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.”

“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”

“Our choices determine our destiny”

Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

“I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts”

“It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.”

“You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.”

“No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”

Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.182, Verso

“Journalists love to show their compassion.”

Source : "Media Unfair to Michael J. Fox And Rush Limbaugh?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2006.