Along Quote by Claire McCaskill

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe…

— Claire McCaskill

“Secrets staying secret is the norm. Officials only get riled up when the opposite happens—when secrets are leaked, published, disclosed.”

— Jason Fagone

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't…

— Oliver North

Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and…

— Ted Gup

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that…

— Harry Reid

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

— Candy Crowley

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the…

— Ted Gup

“By calling something a secret, we state our right not to reveal, to maintain privacy.”

— Paul Ekman

The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they are classified but…

— Barack Obama

It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our…

— Saikat Chakrabarti

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

“And don’t bet on hiding anything for long; as Charlene Li, author of Open Leadership, notes, “There is information leakage everywhere.”

— Tasha Eurich