Quotes About Controversy

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

that good people fought valiantly for disgraceful causes. . . . But by joining the Confederate war machine, all of them, irrespective of their personal motivations, advanced their nation's political agenda—the perpetuation and territorial expansion of human bondage and the misery that it entailed."9

Clarence Darrow," the New York Times proclaimed in its lead story, "bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and a court room filled with believers of the literal word of the Bible and with a hunch of his shoulders and a thumb in his suspenders defied every belief they hold sacred.

Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

Kelly Criterion are: (1) The investor or bettor generally avoids total loss; (2) the bigger the edge, the larger the bet; (3) the smaller the risk, the larger the bet. The Kelly Criterion, not having been invented by the old-line academic economists, has generated considerable controversy.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

Advertisers will want, more generally, to avoid programs with serious complexities and disturbing controversies that interfere with the "buying mood." They seek programs that will lightly entertain and thus fit in with the spirit of the primary purpose of program purchases—the dissemination of a selling message.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

When she got pregnant—he refused to wear a condom, perhaps for religious reasons—he sent her money for an abortion

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Like her marriage, Marie Antoinette's death was a political decision.

Looking without passion is always a good plan where history is concerned. But is it really possible with regard to the career and character of Marie Antoinette?

All Writing Is Garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try to put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. The whole literary scene is a pigpen, especially today.

A book or a movie which lacks the good quality content has to be dependent on the good quantity of controversy and publicity only.

A woman, generally speaking, likes to hear the dirty jokes and loves to listen to plenty of talks against other women.