About Quote by Jill Lepore

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of…

— Trevor Paglen

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret…

— Dwight Schultz

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government,…

— Louis D. Brandeis

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

— D.C. Stansfield

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

— Jill Lepore

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

— Sean Spicer

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

— Bing Gordon

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

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

— Charles E. Bohlen

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone…

— Bell Hooks