Quotes & Sayings About Wikileaks

WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. — Michael Moore

Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write. — Sarah Harrison

At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the choice to surrender to federal authorities ... I saw someone very familiar that day, and suddenly felt very old. — Adrian Lamo

In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate's portrayal of the 'Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint. — Nick Davies

As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations. — Jeremy Hammond

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange

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

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on. — Julian Assange

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. — Sarah Harrison

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. — Whitfield Diffie

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

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. — Julian Assange

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

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks. — Heather Brooke

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments. — Jemima Khan

There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops. — John Perry Barlow

Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud. — Sarah Harrison

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

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security. — Joe Lieberman

Freedom of speech has a number.It was the WikiLeaks IP Address. — Daniel Domscheit-Berg

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange. — Heather Brooke

It's SO much worse in high school! People talk about who's dating with such GRAVITY, like they're talking about wikileaks. — Anna Breslaw

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime. — Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Google's colourful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day, 2.1 trillion times a year - an opportunity for respondent conditioning enjoyed by no other company in history. — Julian Assange

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

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

The truth, indeed, is out - but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a cultivated ignorance and a nearly total loss of critical insight. — Murray Bookchin

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

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

EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time. — Daniel Ellsberg

The real fight is the fight of software developers, of the people who have been writing the software of the financial system. We call on them, in order for them to do what Wikileaks has done in the field of information. Decommission, rewrite, and change the course of the future. — Anonymous

I wish all those involved in the Wikileaks matter in the spirit of truth (rather than as a cheap opportunity to screw with a .gov they dislike) the very best. I hope that they'll bear in mind that truth is not some pure thing that brings light and scatters rose petals wherever it goes. It can hurt people that don't deserve to be hurt. It has thorns. Treat it gently.
(From an open letter.) — Adrian Lamo

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

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private. — Rebecca MacKinnon

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. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.' — Alex Gibney

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved. — Alex Gibney

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear. — Julian Assange

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

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. — Sara Harrison

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support. — Oliver Stone

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks. — Alex Gibney

I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher. — Alex Gibney

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism. — Charles Ferguson

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. — Heather Brooke

There is no way that the new WikiLeaks leaks don't leave Hillary Clinton holding the smoking gun. The time for her departure may come next week or next month, but sooner or later, the weakened and humiliated secretary of state will have to pay. — Jack Shafer

WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. — Julian Assange

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

I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous. — Jonathan Nolan

Snowden evidently knew of WikiLeaks, a niche transparency website — Luke Harding

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

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can't use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times? — Jeff Jarvis

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

It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us. — Dominic Frisby

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

Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant. — Alex Gibney

My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K. — Sarah Harrison

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task. — Evgeny Morozov

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture. — Paul Keating

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency. — Julian Assange

Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare. — Martin Cruz Smith

I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect. — Joseph Fiennes

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

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported. — Jemima Khan

You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

The final exercise (according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks - Haggis refused to talk about it) was "Go out to a park, train station or other busy area. Practice placing an intention into individuals until you can successfully and easily place an intention into or on a Being and/or a body. — Lawrence Wright

In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man. — Rebecca MacKinnon

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. — Peter T. King

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

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

This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important. — Tim O'Reilly

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. — Julian Assange

WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy. — Franco Frattini

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. — Paul Watson

The cable is evidence of a widespread US policy during the occupation of shooting first and asking questions later, as well as detaining anyone and everyone "suspected" of having any links to attacks on US forces. — Dahr Jamail

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

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war. — Jesse Ventura