Daniel Ellsberg

"EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time."

"The question really arises is it a republic if you can keep it, question have we kept it? And the answer is no! No we have not kept it. Since 2001 we have in effect an elected monarchy. And ah, meanin…"

"I took that opportunity to tell him something that, er, I had long thought of telling somebody that was about to enter the world of really high secrecy. And I said, 'Henry, you're about to get a lot o…"

"Chelsea Manning is again acting heroically in the name of press freedom, and it’s a travesty that she has been sent back to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury. An investigation into WikiLeak…"

"The American public was lied to month by month by each of these five administrations . It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute t…"

"We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."