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

"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."

"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."

"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see."

"Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work."

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."