Bureaucrats Quote by Curt Weldon

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.

— Jennifer Palmieri

People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for…

— Tom Clancy

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics…

— Noam Chomsky

“For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and…

— Potter Stewart

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written…

— Noam Chomsky

I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it.…

— Philip J. Corso

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

— David Baldacci

I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

— Valerie Plame

It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to…

— James Comey

For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.

— James Clapper

Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were…

— Will Hurd