Wikileaks Quotes - Page 3

• WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

  Michael Moore

  Action, God Bless, Save A Life

  "Why I’m Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2010.

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Powerful, Done, Weapons

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

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Media, Done

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2012). “63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.

  Julian Assange

  Media, People, Brave

  "A Conversation With Julian Assange". Interview with John Cook, gawker.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?

  Sarah Palin

  Book, Heart, America

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2010

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• WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Perspective, Germany, Action

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• I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.

  Martin Sorrell

  Writing, People, Looks

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• When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.

  Ray McGovern

  Aka, Important, World

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• WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Awards, Presidential, Honor

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

  Bob Weinstein

  People, Secret, Looks

  "Apollo 18 Is Real Says Bob Weinstein" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 25, 2011.

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• WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Government, Media, Long

  "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  Degrees, Roles, Election

  "Julian Assange answers your questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Interesting, Long

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.

  Julian Assange

  Girlfriend, Hard Work, Years

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Diplomats, Candid, Documents

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• Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Secret, Done

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Way, Kind, Superficial

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

  Julian Assange

  People, Instinct, Ifs

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.

  Julian Assange

  Resources, Constraints, Response

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper there's three stories that are anti-Trump. Some of them baseless, some of them silly. And at the bottom you get something about WikiLeaks. Same thing with The Washington Post. Way out of control.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Morning, New York, Silly

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, House, Would Be

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• The most important publication of WikiLeaks is that it has published more than 10 million documents. The most important single collection of material we have published is the US diplomatic cable series. We started with 251,000 in 2011, but are up to 3 million now and have more coming.

  Julian Assange

  Important, Diplomatic, Collections

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then we will publish it.

  Julian Assange

  Giving, Political, Historical

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

  Julian Assange

  Trying, Stories, World

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• Wikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right to some kind of secrecy, but there is a heavy burden and I think its pretty hard to meet. I haven't read everything from Wikileaks by any means but the parts that I have read and seen I think are things the public should know.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Thinking, Ambassadors

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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