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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.
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Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
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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.
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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.
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[Hillary Clinton] had put her favoured agent, Sidney Blumenthal, on to that there's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya.
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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.
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Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
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I don't like the word transparency cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
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Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.
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Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.
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There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
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Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
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There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
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Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.
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Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
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If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
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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.
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good...
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As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.
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