Jeff Sessions Quotes

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.

You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.

Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.

I don't get into conversations or information about anything that the president does with his personal attorney.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

I'd prefer not to tell confidential information about future products.

There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

Public policy forbids the maintenance of any suit in a court of justice, the trial of which would inevitably lead to the disclosure of matters which the law itself regards as confidential, and respecting which it will not allow the confidence to be violated. On this principle, suits cannot be maintained which would require a disclosure of the confidences of the confessional, or those between husband and wife, or of communications by a client to his counsel for professional advice, or of a patient to his physician for a similar purpose. Much greater reason exists for the application of the principle to cases of contract for secret services with the government.

It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising each other on official matters ... it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed.

No one has any right to question my aides about any advice they had ever given me.

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

I didn’t e-mail during my Presidency because I was afraid of the Freedom of Information Requests.

I'd never discuss anything confidential.

I can't get into talking about why another actor left. It has nothing to do with me.