Before Quote by Jennifer Palmieri

People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for…

— Tom Clancy

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to…

— Curt Weldon

Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were…

— Will Hurd

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

— Barack Obama

For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.

— James Clapper

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

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of…

— Bob Graham

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

— David Baldacci

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written…

— Noam Chomsky

If all these guys think that nothing is going to come out for 100 years, they're going to act a whole lot more boldly.…

— Ted Gup

I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

— Valerie Plame