James Risen quotes
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“Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,”
-- James RisenSource : "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 RisenSource : 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.”
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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 RisenSource : 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.”
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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 RisenSource : "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.”
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“Our choices determine our destiny”
Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
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“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
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“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.
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