Quotes About Confidentiality

You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won't tell anyone,' Ken said quietly. 'I promise.

To tell or not to tell?

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

I don't name sources.

Let's protect sensitive sources. Let's protect troop movements. Let's protect nuclear information. Let's not hide missteps. Let's not hide misguided policies. Let's not hide history. Let's not hide who we are and what we are doing.

Maybe you're not so bad after all.'He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. 'If you tell anyone, I'll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.

A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician.

Why do they need you on Molokai? I'm not at liberty to say. 'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.

Our source is private. So are your parts but you can expose them.

I still believe in more privacy and less talk.

A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

where it's not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can remember their names.

Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the Black Chamber in 1929, with the immortal phrase, "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," but that didn't stop the Black Chamber's secrets

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

Madison frowned. Her freckles were so beautiful. "Here's what I need to tell you, okay, Lillian? Here's where I need you to promise to keep a secret." "Okay," I said, growing a little irritated. I'd already said I'd keep the fucking secret. I needed the secret. I needed to eat it, for it to live inside me.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Sei por experiência que se deve evitar descobrir quem deseja manter-se escondido.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the identity of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.