And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and to campaign for reform. I'm just the first to come forward in the manner that I did and succeed.

At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done.

It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.