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" 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. "

Julian Assange

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Always

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

Julian Assange

Deal

Country

" 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. "

" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

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

Julian Assange

Significant

Take

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

" It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 believe that the way to justice is education. "

" 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. "

Julian Assange

Change

Family

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

" 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. "

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