Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

I've never had anything to hide.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

I've got nothing to hide.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Would the world be any more dangerous if we did without secrets all together.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

We don't need secrecy.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Secrecy is essential to committee deliberations because members would be wary of exploring ideas or exchanging views if there were a substantial possibility of an embarrassing leak.

Trust comes from transparency…

I was never any good at keeping secrets.

I don't believe it helps when internal affairs are made public.

I have nothing to hide. I believe when you do you naturally become defensive.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.