Latest Julian Assange Quotes from Interviews

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• My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

  Julian Assange

  War, Mean, Foolish

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Let's say that, personally, I loved Hillary Clinton. Would WikiLeaks still publish this material? Of course it would. Otherwise, we would be censoring it. That's our mandate. It's actually interesting to think about what media organizations wouldn't publish such material if it was given to them.

  Julian Assange

  Thinking, Interesting, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

• People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

  Julian Assange

  People, Corruption, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Trying, Judged

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

  Julian Assange

  Government, People, Actors

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• As editor of WikiLeaks, I am very proud of three things. Number one, we have never got it wrong in terms of what we say. A document is what it is. Number two, we have never revealed one of our sources ever. Number three, what are we proud of? We are proud that there is not a single instance of anyone coming into physical harm as a result of our publication.

  Julian Assange

  Editors, Two, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.

  Julian Assange

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

  Julian Assange

  Motivation, Years, Competition

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.

  Julian Assange

  Years, Organization, Wikileaks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa - previously people fleeing those problems didn't end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by Gaddafi: 'What do these Europeans think they're doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There's going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe', and this is exactly what happened.

  Julian Assange

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

  Julian Assange

  War, Clinton, Libya

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, Media, Arms

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• [The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Assessment, Trying, United States

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.

  Julian Assange

  Police, Crime, Pretending

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

  Julian Assange

  Police, Ecuador, Asylums

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

  Julian Assange

  Self, Azerbaijan, People

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• The West has political prisoners.

  Julian Assange

  Political, West, Prisoner

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it doesn't suit the Western establishment narrative - that yes, the West has political prisoners, it's a reality, it's not just me, there's a bunch of other people as well.

  Julian Assange

  Reality, People, Political

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

  Julian Assange

  Writing, Leaving, Sweden

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Law, Abuse

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.

  Julian Assange

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.

  Julian Assange

  Long, World, Remember

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

  Julian Assange

  World, Situation, Embassy

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• One of the best attributes of human beings is that they're adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable. They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Abuse, Attributes

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

• Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].

  Julian Assange

  Years, Guarantees That, Sweden

  Source: www.zerohedge.com