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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" The media helps keep government honest. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you. "

" 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. "