Top Secret Quotes

“Let's be honest. There's not really any safe place to meet an aspiring head of a top-secret organization, trained in every manner of mind control and manipulation and bent on word domination by any means necessary.”
― Matt Kindt, MIND MGMT, Volume Five: The Eraser

“Can you believe it? I had a project that was sure to win the silver trophy, not to mention that Miss Green would probably get voted best science teacher, and what happens? She won’t even listen to me.

I also had another problem. Miss Green had told me not to come back until I had washed off the green paint. Except it wasn’t green paint, and I didn’t know how to change myself back.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“We’re becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all—and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.”
― Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

“There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew a kid with green skin would just be too much.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that kid with green skin would just be too much.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that a kid with green skin would just be too much.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“Can you believe it? I had a project that was sure to win the silver trophy, not to mention Miss Green would probably get voted best science teacher, and what happens? She won’t even listen to me.

I also had another problem. Miss Green had told me not to come back until I had washed off the green paint. Except it wasn’t green paint, and I didn’t know how to change myself back.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“I didn’t know what to do.
I couldn’t go to school because I was still green. I couldn’t go downstairs to breakfast because I couldn’t eat. So, I did the only thing I could do — I stayed in bed.
And, I don’t mean for just a few hours. I stayed in bed for a whole week.”
― John Reynolds Gardiner, Top Secret

“The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. That fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States.
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Assistance for population moderation should give primary emphasis to the largest and fastest growing developing countries where there is special U.S. political and strategic interest. Those countries are: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Columbia
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At the same time, the U.S. will look to the multilateral agencies, especially the U.N. Fund for Population Activities which already has projects in over 80 countries to increase population assistance on a broader basis with increased U.S. contributions. This is desirable in terms of U.S. interests and necessary in political terms in the United Nations.
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young people can more readily be persuaded to attack the legal institutions of the government or real property of the ‘establishment,’ ‘imperialists,’ multinational corporations, or other — often foreign — influences blamed for their troubles.
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Without diminishing in any way the effort to reach these adults, the obvious increased focus of attention should be to change the attitudes of the next generation, those who are now in elementary school or younger.
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There is also the danger that some LDC [less developed countries] leaders will see developed country pressures for family planning as a form of economic or racial imperialism; this could well create a serious backlash.… The U.S. can help to minimize charges of an imperialist motivation behind its support of population activities by repeatedly asserting that such support derives from a concern with:

(a) The right of the individual couple to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of children and to have information, education, and means to do so; and

(b) The fundamental social and economic development of poor countries in which rapid population growth is both a contributing cause and a consequence of widespread poverty.”
― National Security Council, The Kissinger Report: NSSM-200 Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security Interests

“It is hard to keep secrets in the digital age.”
― Steven Magee

“I have President Trump in the same classification as Edward Snowden.”
― Steven Magee

“I have President Trump in the same classification as Julian Assange.”
― Steven Magee

“Regardless of what happens with President Trump in court, he will always be remembered for being accused of stealing national secrets from the USA government.”
― Steven Magee

“Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and President Trump!”
― Steven Magee

“Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and President Trump are connected through secrets.”
― Steven Magee

“It is President Trump’s destiny to be remembered as an accused secret thief by the USA government.”
― Steven Magee

“If the USA government is successful, President Trump may be remembered as one of the greatest secret thieves in USA history!”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump appears to be the new Bradley Manning!”
― Steven Magee

“I have President Trump in the same classification as Bradley Manning.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump appears to be the new Julian Assange.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump appears to be the new Edward Snowden.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump would be a good fit at WikiLeaks.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump has a bright future at WikiLeaks!”
― Steven Magee

“I spent most of my life working as a professional manifestor for the United States government as part of a top secret program called Project Looking Glass.”
― Nate Lemcke, Manic Pixie Egirl