I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct…

Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from…

— Edward Kennedy

I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple…

— Melissa Febos

Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for sensitive compartmented…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

— Harry S. Truman

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

— Daniel Schorr

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the…

— John O. Brennan

I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing…

— Mitt Romney

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who…

— Jean de La Fontaine

You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to…

— Edward Snowden

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

— Sissela Bok

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in…

— Yoko Ono

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

— George Eliot

“You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.”

— Donna Lynn Hope