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

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" I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

" The media helps keep government honest. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" True information does 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. "