Samantha Cameron Quotes

Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls - well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me. I'm choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband's job. I'm very political in private life, and between me and my husband, I know everything that is going on.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.

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.

A politician can go out and speak for him or herself, but actually for the family it's difficult - although it does bind you.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Politics is a big no-no for me. I'm not a person who can go through that journey in life.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

I have decided not to give interviews and not to hold conversations with journalists who deal with the political activity of my wife rather than my activity as university teacher and researcher.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I've always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what a lot of media are more interested in - the private aspect more than the official side of things.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.