Yitzhak Shamir Quotes

I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no consequence.

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

I am unable to tell a quarter of a billion Americans what we are doing on their behalf, because if I did, it would become the table of contents of the training manual of the enemy.

Some things simply cannot leak. And if they do leak, the government has to do something about it.

There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.