Quotes About Controversy

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.

It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

India is not Dharamshala. People coming from Bangladesh and Pakistan should be thrown out. India had not taken the contract of humanity.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy.

Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.

China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

I've never wanted to be a person where somebody would be like, 'I like her; she's okay.' Love or hate is fine, because it sells tickets.

Muhammad Ali wasn't loved, people forget that, but people paid for tickets to see him fight. In retirement, he's loved. As long as people are talking about you, that's a good thing.

George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

But attention focused on their inane sexual banter, especially Charles's juvenile wish to be reincarnated as a tampon so he could "live inside your trousers.

If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

The Texas Republic, whose constitution expressed an overheated enthusiasm for America's peculiar institution, had been created in 1836 in part as a way for slave-owners to keep their human property by effectively seceding from Mexico where slavery was illegal. These are well-known facts, except possibly in Texas,

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.