Classified Quotes

“Nagumo was suddenly on his own. At this crucial time, the cost of his failure to learn the complicated factors that played into carrier operations suddenly exploded. Now, when every minute counted, it was too late to learn the complexities involved in loading different munitions on different types of planes on the hangar deck, too late to learn how the planes were organized and spotted on the flight decks, too late to learn the flight capabilities of his different types of planes, and far too late to know how to integrate all those factors into a fast-moving and efficient operation with the planes and ordnance available at that moment. Commander Genda, his brilliant operations officer, couldn’t make the decisions for him now. It was all up to Nagumo. At 0730 on June 4, 1942, years of shipbuilding, training, and strategic planning had all come to this moment. Teams of highly trained pilots, flight deck personnel, mechanics, and hundreds of other sailors were ready and awaiting his command. The entire course of the battle, of the Combined Fleet, and even perhaps of Japan were going to bear the results of his decisions, then and there.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back completely exhausted and ill. After six months of intense underway operations, culminating in the fruitless 7000-mile mission across the Pacific to the Coral Sea and back, Halsey had lost twenty pounds and had contracted a serious case of dermatitis. Nimitz took one look at him and sent him straight to the Pearl Harbor hospital. The Navy’s most experienced and highly regarded carrier force commander would sit out the Battle of Midway. The ultimate sea warrior, Halsey would watch from his hospital window as the two task forces departed Pearl Harbor for Midway.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of a large city and hardly miss a word.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“Major Yildiz has a contact in Stuttgart who is a high-ranking officer of the US V Corps. He is going to help us.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

“This assignment is my duty to perform for the US Army. My job is outside your command, my friend. You know my security clearance level remains the same. Copying the SCI is a safety measure, in case there is an electrical glitch. So, I believe we’ve talked enough about this subject. Agree?”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

“Whoever came up with the ida of labeling classified documents with larger-than-life red stenciling that advertises—or at least hints at—the contents was a schmuck, I think. You might as well put a tag that says OPEN ME! on it. If it were up to me, I'd hide all secrets in back copies of Reader's Digest.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“Yes is too obvious,may be always incubates curiosity”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.”
― James B. Comey

“Weeping can be classified as either a sign of weakness or a sign of strength by what you do after the weeping.”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

“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

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