Jerry Lewis Quotes

Would the world be any more dangerous if we did without secrets all together.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Secrecy is essential to committee deliberations because members would be wary of exploring ideas or exchanging views if there were a substantial possibility of an embarrassing leak.

There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy.

It is sometimes necessary to keep matters secret among a few.

We live in the most wide open society the world has ever known….We need to have fewer secrets and a rational classification policy.

Government will have to learn what private businesses are beginning to realize that in this increasingly transparent world, the successful organizations will be those that are able to operate with very few secrets…. The cost of maintaining secrecy is getting higher and higher even when it can be done at all.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

There's no such thing as a secret meeting. There's no such thing as a secret document.... That's a fact of life.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Usually the public is better off with more information than less. That includes information the government would like to keep quiet.

If we cannot keep secrets, it is impossible for our leaders to have the adequate information on which to base their policies.

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

I've got nothing to hide.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.