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" Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. "
Julian Assange
Treasure
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" Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. "
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" Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present. "
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" It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. "
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" So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years. "
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" You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in. "
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" To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. "
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" WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption. "
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" We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. "
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" True information does good. "
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" We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. "
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" Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States. "
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" 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. "
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" Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media. "
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" As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly. "
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" I believe that the way to justice is education. "
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" These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. "
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" Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them. "
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" To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. "
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" In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. "
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" I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election. "
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" I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. "
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" Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. "
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" Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers. "
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" By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have. "
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" I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. "
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" I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. "
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" It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. "
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