Quotes About Information

I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.

If there is one currency that helped Wikileaks take on the might of the U.S. Government, it was Bitcoins.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

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.

In the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are very concerned about the way in which the United States government and some companies have handled Wikileaks.

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.

WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.