Concern Quote by Yitzhak Shamir

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

— Barack Obama

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

— Candy Crowley

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.

— James Clapper

Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they…

— Heather Brooke

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be…

— Meghan McCain

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

— Jason Fagone

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

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't…

— Oliver North

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.

— Menachem Begin

I'm focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters…

— Anthony Scaramucci

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

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