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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" True information does good. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. "

" 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. "

" 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 have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. "

" I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

" Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it. "

" These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption. "

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

" My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me. "

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" 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. "