Latest Amy Goodman Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Amy Goodman

  Champion, Vote

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Over the first two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, Steve Bannon has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in the White House. The New York Times ran an editorial posing the question, "President Bannon?" wrote, quote, "We've never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon - nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss's popular standing or pretenses of competence."

  Amy Goodman

  Powerful, Moving, House

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

  Amy Goodman

  Victory, President, News

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

  Amy Goodman

  Suicide, Years, Lasts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• [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.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Iraq, Wikileaks

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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.

  Amy Goodman

  Years, May, Whistleblowers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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.

  Amy Goodman

  Native American, Marine, Army

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Amy Goodman

  Military, People, United States