Katharine Gun Quotes

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

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

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.

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

The public must know about the general outlines of surveillance activities in order to evaluate whether the government is achieving the appropriate balance between privacy and security.

I've got nothing to hide.

Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

I have nothing to hide!

The information I received as a member of the National Security Council, in my capacity as Vice—President, was so confidential that I would lose my right arm before I divulge it to anyone, even to members of my own family…

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.

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

I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.

The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

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

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

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

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.