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During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

- Julian Assange

House, Around, Had, Arrest

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

Feel, Other, Sources, Presumably

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

More, Like, Profession, Verifiable

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

- Julian Assange

Some, Industrial, Tech, Spying

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

Thought, Through, Very, Latin

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

- Julian Assange

Over, Otherwise, Armies, Organisations

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

Been, TV, By The Time, Nonfiction

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

Save, Manner, Our, Perceptions

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, Use, Means, Organisation

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

Doing, Achieve, Some, Signal

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

- Julian Assange

Know, You, Until, Sensible

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

Political, About, While, Vastly

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

Been, Move, Right Wing, Wing

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

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Best, Language, Always, Investigative

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

Always, Role, A Good Thing, Journalism

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

- Julian Assange

Nature, Good, Controversial, Journalism

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

- Julian Assange

Truth, United, United States, Journalism

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.

- Julian Assange

Been, Exponentially, Gotten, Pipeline

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

- Julian Assange

Police, Like, Very, Reporting

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

- Julian Assange

Maximize, Reform, Amount, Flow

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

Release, Solitary, Basement, Confinement

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.

- Julian Assange

United, Around, States, Pressures

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

Overwhelmed, Very, Our, Startup

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.

- Julian Assange

Other, Role, Still, Publisher

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.

- Julian Assange

Release, Against, Mail, Postal

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

- Julian Assange

New, Leaks, Form, Stopping

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

- Julian Assange

Broken, Some, Afghan, Revealed

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

- Julian Assange

Perfect, Over, Having, Revealed

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.

- Julian Assange

Doing, Some, Always, Changed

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.

- Julian Assange

Role, Been, Sources, Protective

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