Secrecy Quotes

“The president's policy is not to comment on intelligence matters.”

“A premature disclosure of the objects of a negotiation, has a constant tendency to defeat them.”

“La única manera de guardar un secreto es no saberlo.”

“He came to believe that the crime of the artist is that he has a métier, a secret, an inside track to knowledge that is denied to other people.”

“We shred. We shred every day. It's a common practice.”

“I think they should be not only discharged, but they should be immediately prosecuted for illegally giving out secret information.”

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

“He who has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”

“I'm not going to get into a discussion about the internal workings of the White House.”

“There is nothing more corrosive than governmental secrecy.”

“The first rule of magic: Don't let your audience know how you did it.”

“I'm not going to get into the sources and methods of our intelligence.”

“Secrecy secures, so to speak, the possibility of a second world alongside the manifest world.”

“The government has its secrets, and it keeps them.”

“We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning.”

“The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.”

“The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.”

“The whole point of the Bush record is to conceal the Bush record.”

“I am the only one in the world who has the perfect knowledge of what has happened.”