Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

There's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya. It's not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state - something that she would use in her run-up to the general election for President.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.

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

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.