Quotes About Privacy

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

Let me marry in a normal way. I know I'm a public figure, but the person I'm getting married to might need privacy.

My public image is none of my business.

I accept you need the right balance, people do need to know their privacy is protected, but when it's essential information which will be dealt with by security agencies... I do feel the public interest overrides that.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

As an elected official, I live a very public life. That elected figures live under something of a microscope is perhaps a necessary condition for an informed public, and yet, even as a public official, I maintain very personal documents that are not intended for public view.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.

That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a little while - several years, in my case - and then you come out again, hopefully.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I'm not in public life except by accident.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

I never wanted my private and public life to mix as much as they did when I got divorced.

The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from, and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we, as the public, trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives?

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.