Harold L. Ickes Quotes

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Bureaucracy always seeks the path of least disclosure.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

Privacy and confidentiality have always been among our core values. So the question is how to remain true to them in a changing technological and legal environment

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

The Navajo Nation spends most of its time jumping through hoops.

[Addressing a young aide:] You have a college education, haven't you? I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, but I don't know where that book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it!

I can't make a damn thing out of this tax problem. I listen to one side and they seem right—and then I talk to the other side and they seem just as right, and here I am where I started. God, what a job!

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

Security today is important, but 90 percent of security involves other co functions of government.

[T]he [Facebook] settlement sends a powerful message about the importance of privacy. The cost of privacy violations like Facebook’s just increased dramatically. And if the need for companies to take privacy commitments seriously was not clear before, it is now.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.

There are definitely problems with technology companies, mostly around privacy, in my opinion, and the fact that they don't protect our privacy and we haven't passed privacy laws.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.