Pete du Pont Quotes

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

A young man under twenty-five who is not a Socialist has no heart, one above twenty-five who remains a Socialist has no head.

Those old enough to write their memoirs should not comment on contemporary issues.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.