Jon Ossoff Quotes

Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

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.

Just because someone has a high level of security clearance, doesn’t mean that he knows anything.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy. And what I also know, because I handle a lot of classified information, is that there's classified and then there's classified. There's stuff that is really top secret top secret, and there's stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom or, you know, going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.

No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.

I was in the CIA for nine years. I am intimately familiar with the information classification system. I used it every day on the job. Like every other one of my colleagues at the agency, I approached the handling of classified information with immense care because I understand the ramifications.

When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, they tell you… not to trust journalists, to be careful to keep everything confidential.

The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.

If my son or your son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, they'd be court marshaled.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with...

[Hillary Clinton] never misused [ information that the Central Intelligence Agency has]. She always protected it. I would trust her with the crown jewels of the United States government. And, more importantly, I would trust her with the future security of the country and the future security of my kids.

My real issue is that the woman [Hillary Clinton] exposed thousands and thousands of classified documents, which, if I exposed one of them when I was in the Justice Department, they would have put me in jail. That's what I know.

Hillary Clinton's exposed more of our top secret documents than any Secretary of State in history.

National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.