Administration Quote by George W. Bush

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

— Karl Rove

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.

— James Clapper

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

— Candy Crowley

Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information,…

— George W. Bush

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute…

— Paul Ryan

I'm focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters…

— Anthony Scaramucci

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's…

— Jill Abramson

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

— Timothy Noah

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this…

— Steve Buyer

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have…

— Evgeny Morozov

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's…

— Jill Abramson