Administration Quote by Scott McClellan

I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me…

— William J. Clinton

“The Obama administration had waged what people across the political spectrum were calling an unprecedented war on whistle-blowers. The president, who had campaigned on…

— Glenn Greenwald

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that…

— Bob Filner

I knew I had to cover my back and document what I saw as an opportunity to kind of blow the whistle on a…

— Omarosa Manigault Newman

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval;…

— Michael Hayden

I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public.…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

— Bob Woodward

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

— Valerie Plame

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues…

— Barry Goldwater

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I…

— Hillary Clinton

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

— Candy Crowley