Shana Alexander Quotes

I don't have anything to hide.

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

I've got nothing to hide.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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.

There's no such thing as a secret meeting. There's no such thing as a secret document.... That's a fact of life.

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.

That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

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

I've never had anything to hide.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

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

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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

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

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

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

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

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.

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

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.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

Now that you have the Xerox machine, you can't keep many secrets.

Secrecy necessarily breeds suspicion.

The public never ought to have become aware of this matter.