Jay Inslee Quotes

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.

It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

I went to the White House, and met the president.. We in trouble

Classification is used, not to protect the national interest but to prevent national embarrassment.

The generation of news by actions taken by the government becomes one weapon in a strained situation. The results, in my opinion, justify the methods we use… News generated by actions of the government as to content and timing are part of the arsenal of weaponry that a President has in application of military force and related forces to the solution of political problems, or to the application of international political pressure.

Our government has conducted enough covert attacks on Third World countries to create enemies everywhere.

The Briitish and the Jewish Races, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the Second World] war.

It is the oldest story in the coverage of Government: The failure to tell the truth.

We now prepared authorize bombing specific targets in [Guatemala City] area since you and feel this now the most effective move to achieve success. Targets should be selected with a view to having desired effect on army and regime morale with minimum political cost to [the United States].

They say they blame it on a song when someone kills a cop, what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?

Isn’t it clear that the British government has no policy of our own in Iraq and that we are totally dependent on the policy of the United States?

No less a philosopher than Chief Justice Burger was outraged by Ellsberg's publication of classified documents. They belonged to the Government, Burger reasoned, and Ellsberg had no more right to give them to the people than he would have to filch another man's property off a taxicab seat. The Government, of course, commonly leaks classified documents when it deems publication convenient to manipulate public opinion to its advantage. Only the Government, it seems, has a legal right to manipulate opinion with hot documents.

Castro doesn’t need spies. All he has to do is read the newspapers.

Doesn't it seem awfully strange that the Iraqi government we support is an ally of the Iranians who are our declared enemies? Are we not now supporting the Iranians by propping up their allies in Iraq?

Bureaucracy always seeks the path of least disclosure.