Top 33 Government Secrets Quotes
#1. The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
Walter Ulbricht
#2. Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.
Wayne Allyn Root
#4. Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks
Big K.R.I.T.
#5. Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama's presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the US government's most closely held secrets. Deciphering the archive and the NSA's language
Glenn Greenwald
#6. If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.
Octave Chanute
#7. This increases the division of labour. This puts more self-employed workers out of business.
Anonymous
#8. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katharine Graham
#9. Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens ... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk ...
Charles M. Blow
#10. The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Hugo Black
#11. The profession to which we belong, once venerated ... -has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position ...
Nathaniel Chapman
#12. A high-level government agent was arrested today for selling secrets to Russia. They now have all of the exact locations of our back-to-school headquarters.
David Letterman
#13. spies and journalists were fated to go through life together, and it was sometimes hard to tell one from the other. Their jobs weren't all that different: they talked to politicians, developed sources in government bureaux, and dug around for secrets.
Alan Furst
#14. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
David Levithan
#15. If you want to change the world right now, it's not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.
Tom Morello
#16. Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.
Jimmy Fallon
#17. Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world.
Silvio Scaglia
#18. ...until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.
Alison Wearing
#19. The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ...
Hugo Black
#20. To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#22. The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.
Xi Jinping
#23. My suggestion is that you find the true source of your satisfaction and your happiness will follow. Then, you will become the things you want to become. Then you will have the THINGS that you want.
J.B. Glossinger
#24. In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.
Albert Einstein
#25. I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
Charles Baudelaire
#26. It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.
Robert Novak
#27. Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions
Gayathri Ramprasad
#28. One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo
#29. The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.
Sarah Harrison
#30. We're becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets.
Kenneth Eade
#31. The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.
Gabrielle Zevin
#32. I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
Elaine Stritch
#33. We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
[Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]
William O. Douglas
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