Confession Quote by Melissa Febos

Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from…

— Edward Kennedy

I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple…

— Melissa Febos

Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for sensitive compartmented…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

— Harry S. Truman

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

— Daniel Schorr

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the…

— John O. Brennan

I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing…

— Mitt Romney

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who…

— Jean de La Fontaine

You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to…

— Edward Snowden

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

— Sissela Bok