Public Life Quotes

“I don't know why I got so much publicity. I was just a little old lady who went to India.”

“When you are a public figure, you are an object of intense scrutiny. It comes with the territory.”

“I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else, there is certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from, and I am not very fond of them.”

“If you're in public life, you are a public figure. That's the deal.”

“I find it really tedious to have to be ‘on’ all the time.”

“When you're a celebrity, you're a public figure, and you're fair game.”

“I didn't choose to be a public person. I fell in love with a man who happened to be a public person.”

“To be a celebrity is to be a kind of service station for the public.”

“I was scrutinized for such a long time that you just have to find a way to live with it.”

“If you want to be a politician, you have to be prepared to be disliked.”

“When you're in politics, you're a public figure, and you're a public target. You're fair game.”

“I have a love-hate relationship with the press.”

“One is always being judged.”

“A citizen's life is a life in public, a life in the agora, and that is a life of conversation, of argument, of persuasion.”

“One of the lessons I learned in the White House is that you're always on. There's always a camera, there's always a microphone.”

“Nobody wants to be looked at all the time. You just have to get on with it.”

“You can't get un-famous. You can get infamous. You can get unknown.”

“I'm not a very good celebrity. I'm not good at the red carpet.”

“I think that people are always surprised when they find out that I'm a normal person.”

“I learned how to be a woman in front of the public.”