“We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.” Has BeensWarMatterSeriousCivilizationExtraordinaryDocuments Author:Julian Assange
“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.” Has BeensAbilitySuccessfulSpeedGapsReceivingPublishingSubmissionPublishProfileLeaksPipeline Author:Julian Assange
“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.” IfsHas BeensUnitedQualityStagePrideDegreesVariousCorruptionProfessionKingdomsJournalismGentlemanRemarkableHarborsIncompetenceUnited KingdomIntelligence Services Author:Julian Assange
“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.” Has BeensMovingNamesSubjectsExampleSonCallingMy FamilyWingsThreatMy SonBlogsRight Wing Author:Julian Assange
“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.” FirstsHas BeensBookTvsInternetInvolvedNewspapersNonfictionDocumentaries Author:Julian Assange
“The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.” KindHas BeensAbleProjectsResponsibleClintonRussiaCampsHysteria Author:Julian Assange
“WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.” YearsHas BeensDifferentIndividualMillionsSourceThousandTenPublishingDocumentsPublicationWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.” Has BeensGovernmentFiguresAgreeIsisSaudisIsil Author:Julian Assange
“Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.” Has BeensGovernmentEmailFundingIsisSaudisQatar Author:Julian Assange
“I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12.6 million.” Has BeensMadeGovernmentResultsMillionsCasesSuccessfulMonthsPoliceBritishSpendingOperationsExpensiveApplicationAsylumsEmbassyEcuadorBritish Government Author:Julian Assange
“That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.” GivingYearsHas BeensFeelingsPoliticalNextHouseWhiteResultsInformationGive MeElectionBraveCampaignsHeatWhite HouseApplicationPublishingNext YearAsylumsFebruaryPrincipledEcuador Author:Julian Assange
“Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].” YearsPersonsHas BeensHappensLastsRefuseGuaranteesFifteenSingle PersonGuarantees ThatSwedenFifteen Years Author:Julian Assange
“The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.” Has BeensMadeCrimePoliceMade ItPretendingRhetoric Author:Julian Assange
“WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveHas BeensGovernmentStrongInterestInformationVery StrongPublishersWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.” IfsYearsHas BeensMotivationInformationCompetitionPublishWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.” HumansHas BeensDangerousInternetCivilizationToolsThreatTransformedTotalitarianismEmancipationHuman Civilization Author:Julian Assange
“One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.” IfsYearsHas BeensWarEnoughGovernmentPastLyingResultsMediaPropagandaHopeful Author:Julian Assange
