Quotes About Secrecy

I don't talk about my personal life - or what I do with no females. Just know that I love women. A lot.

The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.

Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are a lot of jokes about the difference between 'white hats' and their spooky counterparts.

I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.

If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.

I love the spy genre.

My dad was this Jack-of-all-trades, entrepreneur type. I secretly think he may be a spy, when I really think about it and I kind of connect the pieces. That's what led us to moving to Japan when I was four.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA design - but its power comes from the growing frustration Weisberg's fictional alter ego feels at a system designed to betray seeming innocents in the most casual and cruel manner possible.

People don't object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it's spying.

Spying on the prime minister of Israel and Congress has nothing to do with national security - only politics.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.