Claims Quote by Glenn Greenwald

The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.

— Whitfield Diffie

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they…

— Glenn Greenwald

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more…

— Dennis C. Blair

“I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other…

— Robert David Steele

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

— Ben Bradlee

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

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it.…

— Rachel Maddow

“The only people in the world allowed to keep real secrets are the security organisations owned by governments.”

— D.C. Stansfield

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

— William Proxmire

“Secrets staying secret is the norm. Officials only get riled up when the opposite happens—when secrets are leaked, published, disclosed.”

— Jason Fagone

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

— James A. Garfield