Thursday, September 13, 2012

Classified Quotes

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. 
Ronald Reagan 

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie 

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. 
Russell Baker 

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom. 
Eric Alterman 

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. 
Hillary Clinton 

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. 
Jared Diamond 

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them. 
Kevin J. Anderson 

Leaking of classified material is a concern. 
Robert Mueller 

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. 
Russell Baker 

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. 
Harold H. Greene 

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. 
Bob Graham 

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. 
Pete Townshend 

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. 
Julian Assange 

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends. 
Curt Weldon 

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists. 
Otto Schily 

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. 
Kathryn Bigelow 

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. 
David Baldacci 

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. 
Dixie Lee Ray 

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. 
Roman Jakobson 

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. 
Louis Stokes


Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. 
Finley Peter Dunne 


Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved. 
Alexander Haig 

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. 
Michael D. Barnes 

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia. 
Andy Lau 

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun. 
Wilson Greatbatch 

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. 
Ernst Mayr 

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. 
Luther Burbank 

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A. 
Michael Isikoff 

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time. 
Kim Basinger 

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. 
Gregory Peck 

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance. 
Gordon Gould 

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads. 
David Boies 

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. 
Hodding Carter 

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information. 
Michael Mullen

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