Private Conversations Quotes

I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.

The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

I don't get into conversations or information about anything that the president does with his personal attorney.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

When it comes to social media tea, I recommend that you take it offline. Keep your comments at Happy Hour.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

What is said in public [regarding ongoing political negotiations] is often very different than what is said in private.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

Rudy [Giuliani] can talk about whatever he wants to talk about. He's my friend, I like him a lot and respect him, but I don't talk about the advice I give to Donald Trump.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.