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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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" That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "

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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. "