I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

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.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?