Deniability Quotes

Plan and conduct covert operations which are conducted or sponsored by this government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and conducted that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorised persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them. Covert action shall include any covert activities related to: propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world

New developments in negative advertising like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth allow a campaign to hurl invective while shielding the candidate from any association with such strategies.

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.

One can wink at certain things, but one cannot authorize them

I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

Approved, if done under your assurance that it is not traceable.

Exposing the activities of a foreign intelligence service renders them ineffective, since it removes plausible deniability, which is the hallmark of covert intelligence operations.

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.

Today being President is really no different than running for President. It’s about approval ratings and photo ops and damage control and deniability.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

That a man should, but a few months since, confine himself from his creditors, and now on this occasion be able to advance half a million, is so extraordinary that it ceases to be a mystery. Everything he says, writes or does, is in reality the action of the ministry.

I desire to serve your country as if it were my own, and I hope to find in the friendship of a generous people the true reward of a labor that I consecrate to them.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.