Quotes About Controversy

Do you understand about water in the West? Whiskey's for drinking; water's for fightin' over.

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama's White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.

If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.