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" As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. "

Julian Assange

Prison

Organization

Media

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Julian Assange

Significant

Take

" When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations. "

" You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you. "

" I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. "

" In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. "

" Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new. "

" Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job. "

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" We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. "

" So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years. "

" The media helps keep government honest. "

" Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. "

" To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. "

" Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States. "

" We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. "

" All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out. "

" I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal. "

Julian Assange

Deal

Country

" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "