Democracy Quote by Robert David Steele

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

— Peter Bergen

“By calling something a secret, we state our right not to reveal, to maintain privacy.”

— Paul Ekman

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

— Julian Assange

SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.

— Seiji Kaneko

“Secrets staying secret is the norm. Officials only get riled up when the opposite happens—when secrets are leaked, published, disclosed.”

— Jason Fagone

There are no secrets anymore. The governments, the Chinese, the Americans, the Japanese, the Russians, just the governments alone can move right into anybody's…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

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

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

— Bob Weinstein

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work…

— George Tenet

“Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era,…

— Robert David Steele

We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our…

— Dianne Feinstein

“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