Quotes About Confidentiality

Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a friend of yours, as you call him. And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that even you yourself are not accustomed to do this; in other words, you have in the same letter affirmed and denied that he is your friend.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

It's like the Vatican's porn collection, Zeb told her. Safe in our hands.

Although her parents didn't know it, Debra had gotten a prescription for birth control pills at Planned Parenthood when she was only ten.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

Passing on information to a friend was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.

I don't suppose you know the password

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

Permsiunea real? difer? de cea presupus? sau legal?. Doar pentru c? ai f?cut rost cumva de adresa mea de e-mail nu înseamn? c? ai permisiunea s-o foloseÈ™ti. Faptul c? nu m? plâng nu înseamn? c? îÈ›i permit. Detaliul c? e scris cu litere mici în politica ta de confidenÈ›ialitate nu înseamn? c? ai primit acordul meu.

There's no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

I believe in having a private life.

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

To tell tales out of school.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

She hadn't trusted anyone, not since Patience. Not since Moon Morrow's confidential secretary had turned out to be not so confidential after all.

People had secrets. You lived with it or you didn't.