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Breach Quotes

Quotes on breaches of trust, security, and rules across public life.

These quotes look at the word 'breach' from different fields, including one on a major security breach and its effect on confidence in commercial enterprises. Another notes how strict monetary policy targets come with defined tolerance bands before a breach is declared.

There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory.

Quotes by Victor Ponta

From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial enterprises, where people lose confidence, the economy falters.

Quotes by Valerie Plame

Yes, 4% is the government-mandated target to the MPC. The plus/minus 2 percentage-point upper and lower bands are the tolerance levels specified by the government. If we breach those for three consecutive quarters, we need to inform the government of...

Quotes by Urjit Patel

Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible...

Quotes by Sheri L. Dew

Actual Experience Quotes

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

Quotes by Preston Brooks

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

Quotes by Paul Berg

What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Quotes by Myrna Loy

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that...

Quotes by Mette Frederiksen

American Quotes

Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.

Quotes by Marcia Fudge

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Quotes by Learned Hand

I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now, the in-between months, I was bailed and re-bailed, and my life was on standstill. I was in limbo....

Quotes by Katharine Gun

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common...

Quotes by John Warner

Arrest Quotes

Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is...

Quotes by John Delaney

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

Quotes by James L. Buckley

Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.

Quotes by Helmut Kohl

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in...

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Quotes by Bob Riley

Being Quotes

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

Quotes by Anne Hutchinson

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "Breach" quotes on this page cover?
They range from breaches of EU rules and government-set economic targets to data breaches and legal breaches like the Official Secrets Act, showing how differently the word applies across politics, security, and law.
Why might someone look for quotes about "breach"?
The word covers everything from broken trust to broken rules, so people search these quotes when writing or thinking about violations of agreements, laws, or security systems.
What does the quote about the OPM breach warn about?
It frames a cybersecurity breach as a counter-intelligence concern, warning that repeated breaches of commercial and government systems erode public confidence and can hurt the wider economy.
What's the quote about being arrested for a breach of the Official Secrets Act?
It describes a personal account of an Arrest made on suspicion of breaching the Official Secrets Act, followed by months of being bailed and re-bailed before formal charges were filed.
Does the page mention any inflation or policy targets?
Yes, one quote explains that a government-set inflation target has tolerance bands, and discusses what might happen if those bands are breached for several periods in a row — a technical, economic use of the word rather than a legal one.

A more personal quote describes being arrested on suspicion of breaching an official secrets law and the months of uncertainty that followed. For related reading, see Being and American quotes.