Barack Obama Quotes

I believe that your personal life does not have anything to do with your professional life.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.'

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don't know what's in their briefcase or purse.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

A public man should have no resentments.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

I have great respect for all my colleagues.

I think a lot of problems in this world would stop if people could stay out of other people's business.