Secrecy Culture Quotes

Secrecy is for losers.... It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

To cover with the veil of secrecy the common routine of business is an abomination in the eyes of every intelligent man and every friend to his country.

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

There is a culture of secrecy. Nobody gets punished for over-classifying. They might be punished for under-classifying.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.

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

The combination of secrecy and bureaucracy in the CIA has led to a special kind of disaster.

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

An obsession with secrecy persists in leading industrial countries.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

People in power tend to be not as enthusiastic about open records as they were before they came to power.

Open government’ must not be sacrificed on the altar of bureaucratic secrecy.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'