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" 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
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" Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. "
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks. "
Julian Assange
Significant
Take
Us
" I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. "
Julian Assange
You
Best
Language
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Knowledge
Community
Decision
" 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 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. "
Julian Assange
Economics
World
Political
" 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. "
Julian Assange
People
Experience
Knowledge
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Forward
Know
Doctor
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Julian Assange
People
Speak
Thought
" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "
Julian Assange
Controversial
Good
Nature
" The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. "
Julian Assange
Ignorance
Media
War
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Journalism
Respect
Direction
" I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. "
Julian Assange
Likes
Press
Freedom
" Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media. "
Julian Assange
Democratic
Strong
Part
" To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. "
Julian Assange
Heart
Alive
Way
" 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. "
Julian Assange
Our
War
Civilization
" The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. "
Julian Assange
Starts
Corruption
Early
" Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job. "
Julian Assange
Editor
Always
Pretty
" 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. "
Julian Assange
People
Way
Forward