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A lot of the stories are inappropriate for this setting. I've been sworn to secrecy. (Quote by - Bobby Carpenter)

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. (Quote by - Harrison Salisbury)

He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a continuing abuse of the secrecy stamp to try to remove embarrassing documents from the public eye. (Quote by - Kevin Anderson)

I think it's just another effort at secrecy. E-mails and voice mails are often the only source of information today. (Quote by - Jon Fleischaker)

The facts are just not that. There's no secrecy (involved) in terms of the open meetings law. I think we complied. (Quote by - Tad Perry)

He deserves small trust who is not privy counsellor to himself. (Quote by - Thomas Forde)

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. (Quote by - Jane Pauley)

Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

The empress, the midwife, and yourself: Two may keep counsel when the third's away. Go to the empress, tell her this I said. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Who shall be true to us, when we are so unsecret to ourselves? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)

Examining public records should never require extraordinary legal or bureaucratic efforts. When it does, it's usually a red flag. (Quote by - Don Baldwin)

It's a great victory for the people. It's time to end secrecy in government. (Quote by - George Barrett)

It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates. (Quote by - Brian Urquhart)

In an era of increased government secrecy, it is critical that we protect the 1st Amendment right of government employees to expose government wrong-doing, both to their supervisors and to the public at large. (Quote by - Steven Shapiro)

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

A CIA officer has been fired for unauthorized contact with the media and for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This is a violation of the secrecy agreement that is the condition of employment with CIA. The officer has acknowledged the contact and the disclosures. (Quote by - Paul Gimigliano)

Agrees with the defendant's skepticism of the government's ability to prosecute this case in open court in light of the shroud of secrecy under which it seeks to proceed. (Quote by - Leonie Brinkema)

As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding. (Quote by - Jamie Fellner)

Two may keep counsel putting one away! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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