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Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero. -- Jesse Ventura
I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange. -- Michael Grunwald
WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. -- Noam Chomsky
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. -- Alex Gibney
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that. -- Bill Keller
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 fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. -- Sarah Palin
In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me. -- Alex Gibney
The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange. -- Heather Brooke
Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom. -- Kim Dotcom
Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents. -- Barton Gellman
I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy. -- Noam Chomsky
I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state. -- Rick Smolan
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. -- Nick Davies
I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth. -- Mairead Corrigan
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem. -- Alex Gibney
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society. -- Naomi Wolf
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

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