Sensitive Data Quotes

There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

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

As much as possible, you simply don't give out information to the public, that is the first principle.

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

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

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

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

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.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.

Executive branch rules require sensitive classified information to be discussed in specialized facilities that are designed to guard against the possibility that officials are being targeted for surveillance outside of the workplace.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

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

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

I held top-secret security clearance.

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.