Quotes About Controversy

Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

He always leaves us alone." This was true even in controversy. The April 17, 1949 show, Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke, touched off a storm of protest when it depicted a young girl turning to prostitution. "It was bad timing," Marshall conceded: it had been scheduled on Easter Sunday, and thereafter the fare on that day was confined to classics and comedies.

The first reports of UFOs raised questions for contemporary science, which has dealt with the issue largely by ignoring or denying the whole matter.

We're heading into nut country today.

To deal with what a High Federalist claimed was the "army of spies and incendiaries scattered through the continent," two acts authorized the deportation of aliens who were already in the country.44

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.

Nor did Baggio endear himself to the Juventus faithful by his loyalty to Fiorentina. In the Fiorentina-Juve match in April 1991, Juve won a penalty. Baggio refused to take it, and it was missed. He was then substituted, and on his way to the bench picked up and put on a Fiorentina scarf. Weeks of argument followed.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

The Jesuit turned away, saying, sarcastically, "The Protestants are impenetrable rocks." "You are mistaken," said Kutnaur, "it is Christ that is the Rock, and we are firmly fixed upon Him.

Bucer did not hesitate to declare, that "Servetus deserved something worse than death.

He was the first who termed the pope Antichrist.

Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.

when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

he had violently opposed—as had the entire Curia—the foundation of the State of Israel.

We all agree your theory is crazy. What divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being right."* { Niels Bohr }

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women.

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first—rock 'n' roll or Christianity.