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" 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
Me
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" 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. "
Julian Assange
Serious
Blame
Political
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Prison
Organization
Media
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Work
Credit
Organization
" True information does good. "
Julian Assange
True
Information
Good
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Prison
Look
Book
" I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal. "
Julian Assange
Deal
Am
Country
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Freedom
World
See
" We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. "
Julian Assange
Government
Some
Industry
" Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job. "
Julian Assange
Editor
Always
Pretty
" WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. "
Julian Assange
Make
Ethical
Capitalism
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Role
Still
Who
" The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. "
Julian Assange
People
More
Industry
" These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. "
Julian Assange
Cute
Them
Name
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Over
Military
Inside
" Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States. "
Julian Assange
Truth Is
Mean
Real
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Internet
Over
Independence
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Human
Understand
Time
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Growth
People
Problem
" Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. "
Julian Assange
Behavior
Law
Keep
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Someone
Liberty
Leg
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Society
Human
Best
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Exploration
Big
Political
" I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. "
Julian Assange
You
Best
Language
" I believe that the way to justice is education. "
Julian Assange
Education
I Believe
Justice
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Quality
Effort
Lawyers
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Powerful
Journalism
Bad
" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "
Julian Assange
Controversial
Good
Nature
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Information
Hope
Good
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Someone
Your
Own
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Quality
Yes
War