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" Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media. "

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" We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. "

" 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. "

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

" I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. "

" The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. "

" I believe that the way to justice is education. "

" These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on. "

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

" We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated. "

" 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. "

" To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. "

" Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good. "

" During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable. "

" 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. "

" Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit. "

" 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. "

" The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. "

" In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. "

" WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. "

" It raises questions about the natural instincts of Clinton that, when confronted with a serious domestic political scandal, she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese, et cetera. "