The 36+ Daniel Ellsberg Quotes

Wikileaks Serves As A Back-up For Those Who Want To Tell The Truth About The Inner Workings Of Government When The Mainstream Media Is Not Willing Or Taking Too Long To Publish.

I Found Draft Resistors Very Conscientious, Reasonable, And Not Fanatics.

There Are Some Things That Should Not Be Leaked Without Authorization.

I Voted For Obama And I Will Probably Vote For Him Again, As Opposed To The Republicans. But I Believe His Administration In Some Key Aspects Is Nothing Other Than The Third Term Of The Bush Administration.

Only We, The Public, Can Force Our Representatives To Reverse Their Abdication Of The War Powers That The Constitution Gives Exclusively To The Congress.

I Agree That There Are Things That Should Be Kept Secret.

My Activities, For Which I Gratefully Accept This Award, Are Today What They Have Been For Over Thirty-five Years And Will Be For The Rest Of My Life: To Counter Governmental Secrecy About The Nuclear Arms Race That Threatens The Survival Of Life On Earth; And To Help Build A World Movement That Will Prevent A First Use Since Nagasaki Of Nuclear Explosions, Prevent Or End Interventions That Could Lead To Such An Event, And Bring About A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons.

It Is Urgent To Prevent New U.s. Aggression. The Time Is Now For The World To Say 'no' To U.s. Threats Of Air Attack Against Iran, And To The Very Notion Of A Nuclear First-use 'option' By America Or Any Other Nation.

Obama Is Making A Choice Now That Will Lead To The Deaths Of Many Thousands Of Civilians In Afghanistan By American Hands. By Ordinary Standards Of Presidents, He Is A Decent Man. But Those Standards Aren't Good Enough. He's In A Position Either To Kill Or Not To Kill, And He's Made The Decision To Kill.

Truth-telling To Congress And The Public Is Not Disloyal In America: It Is An Expression Of The Higher Loyalty Officials Owe To The Constitution, The Rule Of Law, And The Sovereign Public. It Is A Courageous, Patriotic, And Effective Way To Serve Our Country. The Time To Speak Out Is Now.

Those Of Us Who Finally Saw Through The Vietnam War Saw Through This War, And All The Actions That Were Necessary To End The Vietnam War Will Be Necessary Here. I Think The American People Will Get Us Out Of This War.

My Feelings Of Revulsion And Foreboding About Nuclear Weapons Had Not Changed An Iota Since 1945, And They Have Never Left Me. Since I Was 14, The Overriding Objective Of My Life Has Been To Prevent The Occurrence Of Nuclear War.