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I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to…

— Barack Obama

There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military…

— David E. Sanger

The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security…

— Brandon Webb

Let's try to protect everything that's important to us.

— Nick Szabo

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never…

— Barack Obama

“The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they…

— Glenn Greenwald

In general, preliminary Force Protection information is shared throughout the national security community - and with U.S. allies - as part of our ongoing…

— Gina Haspel

To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say,…

— Eric Holder

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it.…

— Rachel Maddow

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

— Anonymous

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who has risked so many lives with her careless handling of sensitive information, my administration will not telegraph exactly military plans…

— Donald Trump