Julian Assange Quotes

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.

We are the richest nation in the world. We can do anything we want to do, We can do 100 things we want to do. The only thing we can’t do is everything

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Some things are impossible.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

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

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

In the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are very concerned about the way in which the United States government and some companies have handled Wikileaks.

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

Americans have a right to know what is being done in their name…. These cables tell the unvarnished story of how the government makes its biggest decisions.

Wikileaks could not survive for more than a few months if it did not have public support

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.