I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

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

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

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.

The most important publication of WikiLeaks is that it has published more than 10 million documents. The most important single collection of material we have published is the US diplomatic cable series. We started with 251,000 in 2011, but are up to 3 million now and have more coming.

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.