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"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."
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"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."
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"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."
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"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."
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"We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage."
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"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
42
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
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"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
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"That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information."
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"Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior."
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"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."
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"In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions."
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"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature."
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"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see."
39
"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, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly."
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"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000."
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"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
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"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
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"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
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"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
143
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
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"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
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"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
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"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
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"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
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"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."
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"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
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"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
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"The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters."
Life,
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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."
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"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
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"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
Mind,
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