Secrecy Quotes

“The C.I.A. has a horror of embarrassing friendly governments.”

“There is an inherent tension between the need for secrecy in foreign affairs and the principles of an open, democratic society.”

“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't.”

“The problem is that a lot of what's going on is hidden from public view.”

“The more secretive something is, the more I want to know about it.”

“The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives.”

“In the beginning, I decided that I would not give any clues.”

“The whole project for me was an experiment in telling secrets.”

“Secrecy can be a good thing, and it can be a bad thing.”

“The story was the government's secret history of the war, a history that had been concealed from the American people.”

“The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.”

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

“A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere on the line.”

“What the American people don't know can kill them.”

“We must never permit the veil of secrecy to be drawn around any action of government which is not related to the national security.”

“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”

“Every man has a secret, which, if revealed, would make him hated.”

“I'm fascinated by the idea of information that is hidden from view.”

“There are secrets, and there are secrets. And some of them are worth keeping.”