Criticize Quotes

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
Michael Mandelbaum

Government, American, Policy

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.
Steven Yeun

True, Nothing, Honesty

People have a right to criticize.
Luciano Pavarotti

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
Ellen Goodman

Off, Mothers, Less

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Walter Ulbricht

Nature, Mistakes, Important

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
Pierre Salinger

Education, President, United

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
James Lipton

Done, Else, Reason

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
Ben Shahn

Work, Avoid, Horrible

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
Norm Coleman

Live, Political, Real

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.
Lee Scott

Sure, Open, Obligation

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
H. G. Bissinger

Someone, Written, Respond

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
Shirin Ebadi

Funny, Government, Human

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.
Thaksin Shinawatra

Different, Ways

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
James Carville

Nothing, Another, Rather

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.
Alcee Hastings

Problems, Congress, Middle

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
Rory Bremner

Nothing, Through, Put

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Ferdinand Mount

History, Human, Doubt

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
Sydney Schanberg

Public, Voice, Call

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.
Juno Temple

Important, Understand

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
Kenneth H. Cooper

Long, Training, Weight

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
Ed Royce

Today, Children, Others

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Tim Ferriss

Real, Themselves, Sit

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.
Johnny Damon

Game, Understand, Using

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.
Mario Diaz-Balart

Him, Fair, Knows

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.
Johnny Isakson

Money, Mother, Someone

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!
Harry Hopkins

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.
Buzz Osborne

Work, Someone, Person

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