Lloyd Bentsen Quotes

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

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

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.

I've got nothing to hide.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

I don't have anything to hide.

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.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

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

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

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

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.