Political Privacy Quotes

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.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

I won't even say who I'm going to vote for. I don't want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

I am not comfortable discussing politics publicly; I am very comfortable talking about my friendships with people who happen to be in politics.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

I keep my political views to myself.

Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'

I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.

Not even my parents know how I vote.

I've never disclosed for whom I'm voting.