It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
~By Dirk Bogarde ~
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
~By Richard Perle ~
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
~By Jean Paul ~
It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.
~By Frank Murphy ~
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
~By Larry Niven ~
It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
~By Michael Hutchence ~
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
~By Luis Gutierrez ~
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
~By Edmund Leach ~
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
~By Shelley Berman ~
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
~By Mary Pickford ~
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
~By Ron Paul ~
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
~By John Gilmore ~
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
~By William J. Brennan ~
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
~By Danny Sugerman ~
We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.
~By John Pistole ~
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
~By James L. Brooks ~
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.
~By Ron Lewis ~
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
~By Bill Cosby ~
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
~By Anna Quindlen ~
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
~By Princess Margaret ~
Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
~By John Poindexter ~
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.
~By Michael Schiavo ~
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
~By Darrell Issa ~
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
~By John Updike ~
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
~By Nancy Travis ~
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
~By John Ashcroft ~
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
~By David Brin ~
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
~By David Horowitz ~
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
~By Jim Carrey ~
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
~By Phil Crane ~
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
~By Linda Tripp ~
You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.
~By Robert Casey ~
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
~By Marlon Brando ~
I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
~By Tom Bergeron ~
Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.
~By Michael Novak ~
I believe in a zone of privacy.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.
~By Christopher Knight ~
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
~By Luke Ford ~
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
~By Julie Andrews ~
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
~By Norman Lamm ~
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
~By Roger Mudd ~
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
~By Calvin Klein ~
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
~By Antonin Scalia ~
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
~By Andy Rooney ~
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
~By John Poindexter ~
Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
~By Bram Cohen ~
But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.
~By John Pistole ~
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
~By Alice Foote MacDougall ~
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
~By Louis Freeh ~
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
~By Kate Millett ~
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
~By Bill McCollum ~
Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.
~By Terry Fox ~
When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
~By John Barton ~
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
~By Kathy Bates ~
You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.
~By Tim McGraw ~
I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.
~By Mario Vazquez ~
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
~By Robert Browning ~
TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
~By John Poindexter ~
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
~By Linda Tripp ~
Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
~By Dave Reichert ~
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
~By Bill Bruford ~
The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.
~By William M. Daley ~
I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.
~By John Pistole ~
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
~By Howard Berman ~
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
~By Bill Maher ~
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
~By Margaret Cho ~
If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
~By Bill Nelson ~
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
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