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

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

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

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

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.

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...

As we’ve gotten more successful, there’s a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises,...

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we’re very sure.

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

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through...

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can’t lead to a good conclusion.

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

Well, there’s a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there’s a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic...

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

I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result...

Power is a thing of perception. They don’t need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

It’s interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

Google’s colourful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day, 2.1 trillion times a year – an opportunity for respondent conditioning enjoyed by no other company in history.