Army Quote by Philip J. Corso

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

Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information,…

— George W. Bush

That information, those 6,000 pages, should be released to the public. It's our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done…

— Medea Benjamin

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

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

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to…

— Barack Obama

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for…

— Michael Mullen

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

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

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of…

— Donald Rumsfeld

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

— Julian Assange

Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics…

— Noam Chomsky