“Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.” Quote by James Comey
“In my view, a huge portion of WikiLeaks's activities has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering, informing the public, commenting on important public controversies, but is simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America.” ImportantControversy Author:James Comey
“Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.” InfluenceDirect Author:Al Franken
“Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.” GivingStrategyCorruption Author:Al Franken
“Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.” PoliticalInterestLeaderWestern Author:Al Franken
“All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton. And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.” HelpingPresidentChanceElectionClintonSecretaryInterfere Author:Al Franken
“We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.” PresidentElection Author:Al Franken
“I think it's critically important that the people who have been most harmed by mass incarceration, by mass deportation, by neoliberalism, by all of it, not only have a voice in crafting these platforms but emerge and are supported as real leaders in these movements.” PeopleThinkingImportantRealLeaderIncarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“We're living in a time when so many of the civil rights and social justice organizations are run by lawyers and policy people who are often very disconnected from the communities they claim to represent.” PeopleRunningCommunityJusticePolicySocial JusticeLawyerCivil Rights Author:Michelle Alexander
“The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying attention. It's time for us to really get serious about political education and about our own moral education in this moment, and to seize this opportunity to organize and be in deep dialogue with a whole lot of people who never even thought about being politically engaged or active before. There's real hope there and real opportunity.” PeopleRealMomentsPoliticalOpportunityAttentionMoralSeriousAgreeDialoguePay AttentionOrganize Author:Michelle Alexander
“My fear is that we will mistake the brand, the "resistance," for greater unity than actually exists and wind up settling for any Democrat the next time around. We have an opportunity right now to build much greater consensus about the need for a meaningful alternative and building a truly transformational movement, town by town, city by city, that has the potential to help birth truly revolutionary change in this country. That potential exists. We got a glimpse of it when such enthusiasm erupted over a democratic socialist Bernie Sanders running for president.” CountryHelpingRunningOpportunityPresidentMistakeBuildingBirthDemocraticUnityDemocratMeaningfulEnthusiasmSettlingRevolutionarySocialistNext TimeConsensus Author:Michelle Alexander