Robert Greenwald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Politics #Als #Months
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Baby #Fate #Years
It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Views #World #Billionaire
Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Brother #Safety #People
A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Believe #Moving #Heart
What I always try to do is make the political personal.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Political #Trying
We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Cutting #Safety #Risk
Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Goal #Community #Employee
Ideology has consequences.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Ideology #Consequence
The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Play #Movement #Occupy Movement
Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Running #Regulation #Reckless
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Talking #Years #Two
People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Creativity #People #Together

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