Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Julian Assange

Book

Time

Involved

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I believe that the way to justice is education. "

" It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. "

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

Julian Assange

Deal

Country

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

" The media helps keep government honest. "

" So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Industry

" I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Julian Assange

Significant

Take

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