Amy Goodman quotes:

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

Go where there is silence and say something.

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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.