Michael Moore Quotes

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

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

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

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

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.

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

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

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

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.

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.

Leaks usually have more value to the public at large than the harm which they occasionally do.

We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows

In a democracy threatened by excessive secrecy and the criminalizing of news gathering, the more sunlight the better.

There has been no more significant disclosure in the history of our country. And I’ll include the Pentagon Papers in that.