Quotes About Secrecy

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

I mean, the FBI has to assure people who come and help them that they're going to be able to keep their identities confidential and protect them.

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.

I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.

I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.

It isn't too bad for me as when I don't have a beehive, I can go incognito in my scruffs.

I've always liked being able to go around incognito in Copenhagen.

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

Did Mari Carmen's "secret" intimate conversation with Leslie influence Leslie's grand jury testimony the next day, Wednesday, November 15th? Leslie was the first witness. Her account was lucid and straightforward at moments, hedging and reticent at others, and occasionally, fractured and jumbled. Was she trying to please whoever was questioning her? Or was she responding to someone who had talked to her last night or last month?

Although Leslie was vulnerable to manipulation and abuse, it didn't mean that she was an uncomplicated person. She manuevered between two worlds: the world of her parents and the kid world. In the kid world, you could talk about boys and sex, but you didn't bring it home. Home was reserved for nice, polite conversation.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.