I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

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

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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

If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.