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title: "5 Government Secrecy Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-rumsfeld/it-s-a-difficult-thing-today-to-be-informed-about-our-government-even/)

[Donald Rumsfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-rumsfeld/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/511/donald-rumsfeld-1507_difficult_it-s-a-difficult-thing-today-to-be-infor_197720.png)

> [Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-patrick-moynihan/secrecy-is-for-losers-it-is-time-to-dismantle-government-secrecy-this/)

[Daniel Patrick Moynihan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-patrick-moynihan/)

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> [Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/anyone-who-studies-declassified-documents-soon-becomes-aware-that/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/noam-chomsky-42_citizens_anyone-who-studies-declassified-document_948548.jpg)

> [What do we know about the diseases carried by illegal aliens? Not much, thanks to government secrecy, but we know enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-tancredo/what-do-we-know-about-the-diseases-carried-by-illegal-aliens-not-much/)

[Tom Tancredo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-tancredo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/tom-tancredo-3606_about_what-do-we-know-about-the-diseases-carri_1490596.png)

> [A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-b-long/a-government-by-secrecy-benefits-no-one-it-injures-the-people-it/)

[Russell B. Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-b-long/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/russell-b-long-45362_benefits_a-government-by-secrecy-benefits-no-one_2696687.png)

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