Julian Assange Quotes

Secretary Clinton should be denied access to classified information. Congress must also hold the State Department accountable for fixing the culture of lax handling of classified information.

Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

The secrecy stamp … has been used to withhold information which in 99 ½ percent of the cases would present no danger to national security.

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.

Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

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

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of thing.

Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.

I said it was a mistake. It wasn't the best choice. But all my emails have been turned over to the public.

If we really care about safety we would close down WikiLeaks. We would treat the people at WikiLeaks as enemy combatants. We would declare that the kind of thing this private did is treason. WikiLeaks is not a fun and games event. WikiLeaks undermines profoundly the ability of the United States to work around the world. Why would you, if you were a foreigner thinking about helping the United States, why would you confide anything to an American when you know that it could end up in The New York Times based on some leak?

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.