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The personal is political, but only to a point.

I felt that what is personal is political.

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.