If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

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.