Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.