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Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. -- William Greider
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. -- Julian Assange
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. -- Kathy Mattea
The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. -- Julian Assange
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. -- Warren Buffett
I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher. -- Alex Gibney
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
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly. -- Julian Assange
Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant. -- Alex Gibney
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' -- Brian Eno
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
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. -- Marya Mannes
When you cut into the present the future leaks out. -- William S. Burroughs
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. -- Colin Trevorrow
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston
No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out. -- Marisa Coughlan
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
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. -- Douglas Feaver
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. -- Karl Rove
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. -- Barton Gellman
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
There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out. -- James Randi
In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled. -- Brad Goreski
We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. -- John O. Brennan
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
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
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women. -- Lauren Beukes
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
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
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
The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid. -- Glenn Greenwald
You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works. -- Young Thug
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
The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted. -- Glenn Greenwald
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
It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted. -- Julianne Moore
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
The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not. -- Elliott Abrams
One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes. -- Evgeny Morozov
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal. -- Thomas Friedman
Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Little leaks sink the ship. -- Benjamin Franklin
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere. -- Ben Bradlee
The best leaks always take place in the urinal. -- John Cole
Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. -- Stephanie Zacharek
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston
If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me. -- Markus Zusak
I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified. -- Barack Obama
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. -- Will Rogers
I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof. -- Jim Propp
Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security. -- Merrit Malloy
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies. -- Dennis Lehane
In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today. -- W. H. Auden
Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them. -- Jon Stewart
We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves. -- Kellyanne Conway
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. -- Michel De Certeau
Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks! -- John Patrick Hickey
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me -- Criss Jami
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance. -- Yasunari Kawabata
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Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me -- Criss Jami
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
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes. -- Sivananda
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration. -- Igor Stravinsky
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. -- Colin Trevorrow
An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact. -- Francis Bacon
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so. -- Mark Zuckerberg
BeyoncÃ© don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction. -- Bryce Wilson
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that. -- Edward Snowden
This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die. -- George R. R. Martin
Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment. -- Benjamin Wittes
None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion. -- Mark Noble
The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks. -- Jemima Khan
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. -- O. Henry

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