Quotes About Secrecy

Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.

Paul Cleveland, the American Ambassador in Wellington, informed Lange that henceforth his country would not be receiving NSA's precious sigint jewels. Lange responded tartly that they were not jewels by any means, and the intelligence cut-off was probably a good thing, since he would now 'have more time to do the crossword".

The GCHQ staff were sporty, providing most of the players in the Foreign Office football team that won the Civil Service Football Cup in 1952. This could present some peculiar problems. When local reporters covered matches in Cheltenham, they were told they could name the goal-scorers of the visitors, but not of the local team. Reporting these games tested their copywriting skills to the very limits.

The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

Young man, there are some things in the world so profane that their only real value is in not knowing about them.

Mostly, Sub Rosas are the people regular people aren't supposed to know about. It's not that we don't like you; it's that you have a habit of burning us at the stake when you notice us.

Exactly. I'm the man who makes things happy behind the scenes, but no one knows. I'm Dr. Mabuse." "That's great. Just remember: Dr. Mabuse ended up in the nuthouse." Kasabian makes a face. "Always with the negative waves, Moriarty." I shake my head. "You aren't Donald Sutherland." "And you aren't Clint Eastwood, so just hold the damn book while I finish.

It means the faction found us." He looks around again. "How?" "How the fuck do I know? Spy satellites? Facial recognition pigeons on the freeway signs? Ballerinas with Uzis? What does it matter? Just hit the fucking accelerator.

Elliot? Your vampire's name is Elliot? What's his last name?' 'I don't know. He's never said. But even Elliot might not be his real name.' 'Why would anyone make up a name like that?

You know who Anne Frank is?' I asked. 'Of course,' he said, as if I had offended his intelligence and Dutch pride. 'When they came to get her, they went right to her hiding place.' 'I know.' 'And that means someone betrayed her.' 'But who did it?' he said. 'You.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

In a wired world, silence is suspicious.

Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.

Earlier today Ian and I sneaked over to take a look at it.

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes and its own factories and its thousands of secrets. It had a peculiar sovereignty, one that could bring about the end, peacefully or violently, of all other sovereignties.

I want to tell you this story without having to be in it

And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them

I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything … I want to tell you this story without having to be in it

I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything

and I was trying to convince you that I was a vampire.

you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do

You're a gay detective? I don't think I've ever met one before." "Of course you have," McWhirter put in emphatically. "You just didn't know they were gay. That's the whole point.