We must entirely boycott the 2022 Winter Games.

With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against…

— Harvey Fierstein

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in…

— Tony Hawk

Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live…

— Alex Berenson

I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

— Shani Davis

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to…

— Jacques Rogge

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

— Ban Ki-moon

It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver…

— Mike Schultz

While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In…

— David Mixner

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in…

— Tony Hawk

While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance:…

— Sam Sifton

If you want to boycott Israel because of Palestine, I don't think you actually care, because you're also boycotting 2 million Muslim Palestinian Israelis.

— Nuseir Yassin

When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your…

— Thomas Sowell

We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are…

— Cesar Chavez

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much…

— Rudolph Herzog