John Mortimer Quotes

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

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.

I've got nothing to hide.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

I've never had anything to hide.

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

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

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

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

There ain't no secrets in this town.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Government will have to learn what private businesses are beginning to realize that in this increasingly transparent world, the successful organizations will be those that are able to operate with very few secrets…. The cost of maintaining secrecy is getting higher and higher even when it can be done at all.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Usually the public is better off with more information than less. That includes information the government would like to keep quiet.

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.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

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

I have nothing to hide. I believe when you do you naturally become defensive.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

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