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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

" 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. "

" The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in. "

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

" Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. "

" 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 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. "

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

" True information does good. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. "

" 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. "

" What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. "