Claim Quote by Heather Brooke Download Open image “Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.” — Heather Brooke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Claim Cybersecurity Good Good governance Governance National National security Necessary Often Politicians Politics Secrecy Security
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news; things which… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern. — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America,… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear, "I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring. — Tony Bellew Copy Share Image
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it. — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how to collect… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart.” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
