I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to…

Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when…

— Lowell Bergman

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper?…

— Milton Friedman

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even…

— Rod Lurie

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential.…

— Floyd Abrams

What happens when I'm dealing with the problems in North Korea and the Middle East? Are you folks going to be reporting all that…

— Donald Trump

There was or is always someone somewhere to say the same thing that somebody thought at some time that no one would speak out…

— Anuj Somany

Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark…

— Debby Applegate

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

— Phyllis McGinley

You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to…

— Jeff Sessions

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony.…

— Louis Stokes

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say,…

— Ted Demme

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In…

— Brian Helgeland

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

— Sun Tzu

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker