Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

— Peter Tatchell

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The most important publication of WikiLeaks is that it has published more than 10 million documents. The most important single collection of material we…

— Julian Assange

There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen.…

— Nicholson Baker

The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic…

— Elliott Abrams

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic…

— Elliott Abrams

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across…

— Elliott Abrams

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances…

— Elliott Abrams

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

— Noam Chomsky

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on…

— Rachel Maddow

What Cable is up to is not something that can be done quietly. It will raise the interest of some pretty important people and…

— Jeph Loeb

I don't control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday…

— Hillary Clinton

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they…

— Debbie Reynolds

When you talk about President Trump, the cable networks turned over so many hours of prime time to him. Why? Because he was entertaining,…

— Al Gore

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how…

— Shaquille O'Neal