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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption. "

" 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. "

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

" When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

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

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

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

" We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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