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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

Government is connected to everything we do.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.