Julian Assange Quotes

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

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.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

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

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

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.

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

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

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

I released 34 years of tax returns and 300,000 e-mails in my government record. To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI.

This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate''s portrayal of the 'Guardian''s work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

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

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

“Activist” is a dirty word in the United States. We are not activists for any particular political position on most issues. We are activists only for ending government secrecy.