A Quote by Chris Hayes

I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

Chris Hayes

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Chris Hayes
American - Journalist
Born: February 28, 1979

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

Joe Eszterhas

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

W. Kamau Bell

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

Frankie Boyle

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Louise Erdrich

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

Robert Byrd

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

Joe Eszterhas

I think political correctness is a moving line.

Clive Anderson

I just think political correctness is crap.

Gary Oldman

I think political correctness has taken over this country.

Jesse Watters

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

Joe Eszterhas

Trump was able to convey - oddly enough a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan - a genuine concern for people who felt kind of left off, who felt offended by all the political correctness they see around them.

Mitch McConnell

I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That's the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.

Rithvik Dhanjani

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

Corey Stewart

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Jan de Bont

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.