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Quotes About Controversy

RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.
~ Frankie Boyle
Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.
~ Al Gore
It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
~ Andrew Solomon
I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.
~ Anna Paquin
The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.
~ Annabelle Wallis
Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."
~ Bill Ayers
Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'
~ Bill Maher
Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.
~ Charles Barkley
Every time John Travolta assaults a masseur, a scientologist gets their wings.
~ Chelsea Handler
I had some people say to me, you don't - you wouldn't give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?
~ Chuck Todd
I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
~ Claire McCaskill
The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.
~ Corri Wilson
I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
~ Courtney Love
Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.
~ David Brooks
[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it's going to go up a little bit higher.
~ Donald Trump
I'm not sure everybody agrees with me. I guess a lot of people don't. We are living in a time that's as evil as any time that there has ever been.
~ Donald Trump
I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.
~ Donald Trump
I watched Hillary Clinton. What a sad - what a sad situation. Every time I mention her, everyone screams, "Lock her up." "Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up," they keep screaming.
~ Donald Trump
Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time.
~ Donald Trump
All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is.
~ Rudy Giuliani
It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.
~ Rush Limbaugh
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
~ Salman Rushdie