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

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

I like to write books and cause trouble.

For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

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

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.

We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.