Leaks Quotes

• A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Government, Vessel

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• After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Moving, Boards

  Gary Snyder (1971). “The Back Country”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• In headaches and in worry
  Vaguely life leaks away,
  And Time will have his fancy
  To-morrow or today.

  W. H. Auden

  Worry, Fancy, Today

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.75, DEBOLS!LLO

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• 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

  Government, Talking, Dubious

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• 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

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.

  Sabrina

  People, Focus, Creative

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• Every aquarium will eventually leak.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Aquariums, Thrive

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• When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Rain, Roof, I Can

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• 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

  Giving, Attention, Stories

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• 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

  People, Helpful, Protective

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• 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

  Together, Criminals, Flaws

  "FBI seeks stolen personal data on 26 million vets" by Terry Frieden and Marsha Walton, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2006.

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• 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

  Morning, Blessing, Snow

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.231, New Directions Publishing

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• If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

  Karl Rove

  Want, Administration, Knows

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• The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

  Marya Mannes

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

  Julian Assange

  Stopping, Censorship, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Sin, Pilgrims Progress

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• 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

  Successful, Pipeline, Gaps

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

  William Greider

  Gathering, Routine, News

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

  Dick Cheney

  Work, Intelligent, Government

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2006.

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• 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

  Law, Secret, Information

  Council on Foreign Relations meeting, www.cfr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

  Mort Sahl

  New York, Media, States

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• The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.

  Howard Kurtz

  Organization, News, Politics

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• The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

  John Cole

  Espionage

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• There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

  Ben Bradlee

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