Confidentiality Quotes

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I'll say it a little differently in a pun. We're strong as our weakest leak.

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

There are some things I don’t tell the President. It’s better if he doesn’t know.

Secrecy is as essential to Intelligence as vestments to a Mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance, and must at all costs be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

I'm share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

We are not obligated to share.

Private matters should be dealt with privately, out of respect for everybody concerned

People would know virtually nothing about their government were it not for confidential sources who can speak without fear of retaliation.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.