James Comey Quotes

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no consequence.

It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.

Here's my problem: Hillary Clinton has been found grossly negligent of classified information. Period. She should not have any security clearance. That should be taken away from her.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.

Secretary Clinton should be denied access to classified information. Congress must also hold the State Department accountable for fixing the culture of lax handling of classified information.

For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cyber security is just one more area where the Obama administration has failed.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

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

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

As governor of RBI, Dr. Rajan has sent confidential and sensitive financial information to various persons around the world on his University of Chicago unsecure personal email address. This is a reckless disregard of the national security of India.

I was in the CIA for nine years. I am intimately familiar with the information classification system. I used it every day on the job. Like every other one of my colleagues at the agency, I approached the handling of classified information with immense care because I understand the ramifications.