Control Quote by Jacob Rees-Mogg

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

“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend…

— Carl Sagan

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

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

The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a…

— Glenn Greenwald

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one…

— Glenn Greenwald

There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military…

— David E. Sanger

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

— Arthur Curley

“Because secrecy can become an addiction. That's been a problem as long as people have tried to covet power for themselves. Sure, governments need…

— Jonathan Maberry

I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to know.

— Damian Green

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange

Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation,…

— George Carlin