Cost Quote by Dick Cheney

We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our…

— Dianne Feinstein

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted…

— Glenn Greenwald

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to…

— Joan Claybrook

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

— Robert Novak

There are no secrets anymore. The governments, the Chinese, the Americans, the Japanese, the Russians, just the governments alone can move right into anybody's…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

— Bob Weinstein

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not…

— Noam Chomsky

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's kind of a stretch. You know, it's one thing if somebody working for the U.S. government has sold secrets to the…

— Robert M. Gates

It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of…

— Matt Taibbi

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

— Daniel Schorr