Quotes from Julian Assange

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

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.

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.

Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.