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You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Julian Assange

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
Business Executive
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I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick they faint as a result of [the reaction] to their ambitions.
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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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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.
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Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.
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Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
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Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.
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Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.
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The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
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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.
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Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
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Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.
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If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.
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Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.
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Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
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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.
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Power factions fight back with lies.
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One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.
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Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.
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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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