Julian Assange Quotes

• The mark of service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Prize, but an espionage indictment from the U.S.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• True information does good.

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• These megaleaks… They’re an important phenomenon, and they’re only going to increase.

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

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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.

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• The corruption in reporting starts very early. It’s like the police reporting on the police.

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• 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.

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• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

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Julian Assange (28)

Birth:	3rd July, 1971
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Editor, Journalist, Programmer, Publisher

About

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and journalist. He is known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.

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