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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are."

"Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do."

"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."

"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."

"I skip through the programming to watch the commercials."

"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public."
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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."

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

"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."

"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."

"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
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