Mikie Sherrill Quotes

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

Secrecy is a necessary part of doing business in the modern world.

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

When does the American taxpayer get a return on the money spent on Defense R&D? Never. Our companies are too quick to give our technology away for short term profits.

Some things simply cannot leak. And if they do leak, the government has to do something about it.

Cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets by state actors in China has emerged as a major threat to our economic and, thus, national security.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

Every single day, agents of certain foreign governments are relentlessly and methodically trying to hack into our corporations' computer networks and steal blueprints for next-generation equipment and products from some of America's largest exporters.

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no consequence.

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

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

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.

I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back!

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

Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I mean scientific review and not a political filter.

On the question of information security, he claims that, in a Trump Administration, the U.S. government will not spy on its own citizens. If true, this would represent a turn away from the strong language that he has used about identifying terrorists on our soil.

Once the collection of conversations between the Israeli government and members of Congress occurred, had it been inadvertent, then they would have been destroyed instead of redacted for further use. Had they been inadvertent, then they would not have been forwarded to the White House for review in their redacted form.

We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coin flip.

I perceive Sci-Hub as a practical side of my research.

Some people are skeptical about the value of indictments where a foreign nation-state actor is involved. But in the case of APT10, the indictments marked an important step in publicly exposing China's continued practice of stealing intellectual property to give Chinese firms an unfair advantage in the marketplace.

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

It is very important that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency adhere to the same classification guidelines that all employees must adhere to because there are very good reason for those classification guidelines.