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Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak. -- Heather Brooke
Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it. -- Joan Claybrook
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. -- Benjamin Franklin
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. -- John Bunyan
There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. -- Daniel Ellsberg
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. -- Karl Rove
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. -- Douglas Feaver
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. -- Marya Mannes
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir. -- Charles Comiskey
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. -- Timothy Noah
The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility. -- Ken Calvert
The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any additional speculation. -- Robert Luskin
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. -- Nancy Gibbs
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. -- Oliver North
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. -- Charles Olson
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in. -- Lupe Fiasco
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. -- Billy Sunday
As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak. -- Evgeny Morozov
If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that. -- R. James Woolsey, Jr.
There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure. -- Marianne Williamson
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak. -- Jill Tarter
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop! -- Joshua Slocum
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. -- Henry David Thoreau
I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that. -- Trent Reznor
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them. -- John le Carre
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things. -- Jamie Foxx
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again. -- Regina Brett
Every aquarium will eventually leak. -- Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. -- Marya Mannes
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in. -- Susan Sontag
Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak. -- Edward Abbey
The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department. -- Mort Sahl
One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece -- Thom Yorke
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak? -- Rush Limbaugh
If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere. -- Billy Sunday
Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow. -- Robert A. Heinlein
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board -- Gary Snyder
As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie. -- Diane Ackerman
We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves. -- Kellyanne Conway
How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak? -- Jay Leno
Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak. -- Brad Wilkerson
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. -- William J. Clinton
Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! -- Dr. Seuss
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. -- P. G. Wodehouse
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. -- Henry David Thoreau
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place. -- Marisha Pessl
When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance. -- Sakya Pandita
Confused, I asked, "The coven's what?" "Plumber," Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. "You know. Stops leaks?" Oh goodie. I'm a leak. -- Kim Harrison
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat. -- Rex Stout
Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote. -- Richard Lederer
Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak. -- Edward Sapir
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. -- Maynard James Keenan
I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life. -- Tony Robbins
Whether we have a leak or roof that needs to be replaced, we can always count on Premier Roofing Services to get the job done the right way. -- Matt Keough
We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe." -- Rudyard Kipling
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. -- Rudyard Kipling
I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts. -- Steve Buyer
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. -- Daniel Ellsberg
I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We`ve got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing. -- Chris Matthews
You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.' -- Cindy Crawford
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. -- Jill Abramson
The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion. -- Anthony Loyd
BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean. -- Jimmy Fallon
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen. -- Dan Rather
As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne. -- Dan Brown
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality. -- Thomas Boswell
If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of. -- George W. Bush
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them. -- Matt Drudge
I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it. -- Ronald Reagan
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze? -- Victor Hugo
You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate. -- Arthur Rudolph
If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that. -- R. James Woolsey, Jr.

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