Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.