Secrecy Quotations | Page 2

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

These guys are suffering in secrecy and shame. Sometimes they put it out of their brain.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

This administration has embraced secrecy as a right.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

The White House has dodged the truth about torture for too long. With reports of torture in the news virtually every day, it is imperative the president and all in his administration end the secrecy and end the torture. This campaign will allow thousands of Americans to demand that torture in our names is not committed again and insist that the president speak the truth in his State of the Union address about this heinous crime.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.