Alex Gibney Quotes

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

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

RT was one of the first channels to cover the Wikileaks story and to interview Julian Assange a long time ago, way before it made headlines around the globe.

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

Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.

Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

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.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

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.

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

We would not have a national discussion without the actions of Edward Snowden. Democracy is at work because of Edward Snowden.

The Snowden leaks were important – a legitimate scoop – and we might never have known about the NSA’s law breaking if it had not been for them.

What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

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

The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.

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

WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.

Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.

The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral story.

The 'conspiracy theorist' is no longer a crazy person with a tinfoil hat, but they are the Edward Snowdens and the WikiLeaks that bring down major institutions and are the catalysts for social change.

Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.

Bono. He still is somebody who, and I don't say I'm starstruck in that sense, I'm always in awe of. It doesn't matter how many times I've been with him, he's still an exceptional man that continually inspires me in many ways in life.