Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Power factions fight back with lies.

That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.