Debbie Reynolds Quotes

It's really difficult to go out on a date with the Secret Service ... How about the Secret Service on your honeymoon? It's amazing that David and I are still together.

Stopping people you don’t trust is an essential ingredient. It is part of owning and governing the territory you’re patrolling

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

For a man's house is his castle.

If I do nothing else, I'm going to make this a safe state.

Your home is your castle; defend it in any way necessary.

If my friends don’t know what my plans are, then my enemies will not.

Anything can be justified by security.

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

The best way to keep a secret is to never have it.

I guard my privacy zealously.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.

Bodyguards offer fake security. The real security comes from having your enemies know nothing about you.

If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know.

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.