Leon Botstein Quotes

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

You want your privacy as a human being.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

Most decisions involving the way that Americans live their lives are not made in the courts.

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

My private life stays private.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

We’ve lost the line between public and private.

A man's home is his castle. His bedroom is in the middle of it. I don't want anyone snooping around in my bedroom.

Keep big government out of our bedrooms.

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

Private matters should be dealt with privately, out of respect for everybody concerned

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

I believe in a zone of privacy.