Deal Quote by Elliott Abrams

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

— Elliott Abrams

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across…

— Elliott Abrams

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

— Julian Assange

It is vital that people are aware of what the Foreign Office can and can't do.

— David Lidington

I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.

— Asha Rangappa

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

Having conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that not everything a foreign intelligence service does is necessarily illegal.

— Asha Rangappa

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

— Evgeny Morozov

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

— James Purdy

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States…

— Hillary Clinton

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement…

— Louis Stokes

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

— Lawrence Eagleburger