Mitch Daniels Quotes

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

PACs represent thousands of little people.

Three out of four [White House] comments on our rule making were cribbed right from industry briefs.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

No group in this country should be permitted to influence our policy to the point it could endanger our national security

The spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

Big contributions from those who are seeking government favors are a menace to honest government.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent.

There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody - for good guys and bad guys.

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.

I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

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.

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

Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.