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

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

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

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

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.