We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand," he said, "I get undue credit.

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.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

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.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.