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"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing."

"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"

"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."

"When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people."

"Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses."

"The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public."

"Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them."

"The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!"

"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."

"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations."
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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."

"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."

"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."

"Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior."

"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."

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

"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."

"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes."
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