Committed Quote by Jim Courier

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated…

— John Carlos

Autocratic countries have attempted to leverage hosting the Olympics into legitimizing their stances among the global community: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Russian…

— Michael Waltz

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the…

— Richard Gere

I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about the athletes…

— Kristin Armstrong

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't…

— Dick Ebersol

Big moments like the Olympics tend to freeze things in place. It's just very hard to break through the news cycle with peoples's eyes…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was…

— Jesse Owens

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

— Bill Toomey

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and…

— Jill Lepore

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and…

— Gary Hustwit

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for…

— Jackie Chan