#criticize

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#been #criticized #last #man #me

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#country #criticized #development #economic #economic development

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#freedom #irrational #manifestly #person #race

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#bush #clinton #conservative #criticized #era

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me. ↗

— Anna Freud

#accomplished #being #criticize #does #enjoy

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

#criticized #else #i #increase #know

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

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

#criticize #doubt #history #hopes #human