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

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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. "

" True information does good. "

" Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The media helps keep government honest. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "