Difficult Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

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

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

We don't need secrecy.

— Jimmy Wales

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

— Todd Tiahrt

One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship…

— Dick Cheney

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

— Josh Hawley

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

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

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation…

— John F. Kennedy

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

— Kate Adie

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely…

— Peter Singer