Quotes from Amy Goodman

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.

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

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.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

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.

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.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

The media—stenographers to power.

Journalists are not entertainers. We are reporters. We go to places that are unpopular. We broadcast voices that are controversial. We are not here to win popularity contests. We are here to cover the issues critical to a democratic society. We have to pressure the media, to shame the media into going into these forgotten places where so many are sent to waste away in silence.

More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media. The silenced majority is finding its voice.

she was roughly handcuffed and arrested. Julio was roughed up and arrested as well—all for closing an account at Citibank.

Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.

In the beginning was the light and light was with life and the light was life and the earth quickened, and we came out of the ground to yearn forever and never reach the light but to tumble through generations, our skins afire with this lust for the light and we go toward the light or we go toward nothing and we become nothing. That is all.

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

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

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

The media—stenographers to power.

Whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, I really want to be your greatest champion. And I will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not.

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