194 Quotes by Julian Assange
"We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit."
"The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends."
"All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out."
"It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on."
"We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter."
"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 of the Kenyan general election."
"There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment."
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
"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."