Quotes About Secrecy

His uncle, Ian Rider, had taken him on a tour of the Greek islands when he was nine years old and he couldn't help being reminded of it. It was as if nothing had changed. Except, of course, that he was now working for MI6, he was using a false name, his new best friend was a psychotic killer and he had less than a week to stop London from being destroyed.

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

For the longest time, I was just real nervous about privacy and people prying into my personal business.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

I wouldn't want anything on my personal life making its way into the public domain.

I'm not going to discuss things that are internal party matters and things that are not supposed to be in public domain.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.

When you're in the public eye, me and my husband have realized that things should be kept in.

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

A President of the United States cannot restrain anything from publication.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

I am not one to discuss my future publicly.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.