Leaks Quotes

• 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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• You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Age, Funny Aging, Knows

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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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• The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

  John Cole

  Espionage

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

  James Reston, Jr.

  Government, Vessel

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every aquarium will eventually leak.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Aquariums, Thrive

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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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• 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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• When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cutting

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• Little leaks sink the ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Ships

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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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• 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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• Women are not the problem they're the solution

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Empowering, Problem, International Women's Day

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• 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

  Princess, Tunnels, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Years, Nsa, Important

  "Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America" by Daniel Ellsberg, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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

  Ben Bradlee

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• When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn't seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.

  Adam Schiff

  Home, Fighting, Russia

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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