Quotes About Controversy

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared 'racist' or 'sexist' every day, I'm certainly glad that we do have this protection.

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

When we were doing 'My Three Sons,' I appeared in the movie 'The Apartment.' I played a married businessman who kept a mistress on the side and treated her rather poorly. It was a good movie and a good role, and I thought it would be fun. But you should have seen the letters of protest I got over that.

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

I do not understand why Muslims are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. CAA is not for the Muslims who were born here.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

There is no way that anyone who - besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts - there's no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It's just proven. We can do this.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.

Marines getting baptized? This used to be a place of men with pure warrior spirit. Chaplains are a goddamn waste.

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents. --Cousin Jasper

Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.

Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of—every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. . . .

Without credit default swaps, there might never have been a President Donald Trump.