Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.

I do not believe the president’s sex life is any of our business. After 30 years of political reporting I have been unable to establish a link between marital fidelity and high performance in public office. It really doesn’t matter who they screw in private as long as they don’t screw the public.

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.

Public men are bees working in a glass hive.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

It is very unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

The more authority a person asks for in a democracy, the less privacy they’re entitled to.

There is, however, one consolation to anyone who lives in the public eye, namely, that while it may be most difficult to keep the world from knowing where you dine and what you eat and what you wear, so much interest is focused on these somewhat unimportant things, that you are really left completely free to live your own inner life as you wish.

The White House Press Secretary is supposed to serve the President and the Press. I found that I could not serve two masters.

In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.

I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.

For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

If you're in government, that's one of the one things you have to do is to always avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.