Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

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

If we [are] to fully discharge the serious responsibilities imposed upon us, the confidential character of our files must be inviolate.

I don’t believe, and I never did, that a man has to become an informer to practice his profession.

If I were to discover that my valet was I spy, I shouldn’t discharge him for that fact—assuming he was a good valet.

I would never lie about another professional.

If you don't uphold a contract, which is an agreement, then you've got nothing.

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

Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

Most of the ethical dilemmas that I have faced have all been in the category of, you know, I know something and what's my obligation to disclose it. So, for example, you see people make a mistake in the contract that you're making between the businesses and do you disclose it or do you reveal it? And generally speaking, the way that I solve these is I kind of go through a list of, you know, what's the most, what are the obligations and constituencies and in what order?

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.