“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

On Question Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etg5lm92Io8, 18 September, 2008.

As quoted in Photo (2005) by Graphis Inc. http://books.google.com/books?id=m9RTAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Le+Pen+adored <br class="br">Context: I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Even when I am not in sympathy with the person, I have to be in love with him or her while I&#x27;m doing their portrait. Le Pen adored me (at least until his photo ran alongside Hitler&#x27;s in Le Monde), and we got on extremely well.

Source: Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy: About Gender

From Count d'Orsay's Letter to John Forster (1850)

On Jean-Luc Godard in an interview with John Simon (1971).
Context: In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this. But I can't see his pictures. I sit for perhaps twenty-five or thirty or fifty minutes and then I have to leave, because his pictures make me so nervous. I have the feeling the whole time that he wants to tell me things, but I don't understand what it is, and sometimes I have the feeling that he's bluffing, double-crossing me.

Alleged response to conservative senator&#x27;s statement that &quot;I think you know where I stand on abortion&quot; (exchange occurred at White House prior to Justice Kennedy’s nomination). Quoted in [Opinion Journal, Religion and the Court, Wall Street Journal, http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007409, 1987 (date of quote) 16 October 2005 (date of article)] Later, Kennedy cast doubt upon that exchange (see p. 91 of 1987 confirmation transcript http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/senate/judiciary/sh100-1037/browse.html).