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Quotes About Controversy

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.
~ Jan Brewer
There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.
~ Jay Leno
The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.
~ Jay Leno
On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.
~ Jimmy Carter
Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.
~ Jimmy Fallon
At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.
~ John Lennon
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
~ Joseph Epstein
Truth in the heart of heresy
~ The Doctor
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
~ Chris Hayes
That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.
~ Bill Maher
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
~ Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.
~ George Preston Marshall
The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.
~ John Shelby Spong
Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together
~ Milton Berle
It cannot be stressed enough that there is no certain independent date for any of the archaeological material from earliest Rome or the area round about, and that arguments still rage about the age of almost every major find.
~ Mary Beard
More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid.
~ Mary Beard
What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.
~ Mary Roach
One French clergyman recommended thrusting a red-hot poker up what Bondeson genteelly refers to as "the rear passage." A French physician invented a set of nipple pincers specifically for the purpose of reanimation. Another invented a bagpipelike contraption for administering tobacco enemas, which he demonstrated enthusiastically on cadavers in the morgues of Paris.
~ Mary Roach
According to the Kind & Knox Web site, other products made with cow-bone-and-pigskin-based gelatin include marshmallows, nougat-type candy bar fillings, liquorice, Gummi Bears, caramels, sports drinks, butter, ice cream, vitamin gel caps, suppositories, and that distasteful whitish peel on the outside of salamis.
~ Mary Roach
Many people are bothered about the number of privately owned guns in the United States, but what about publicly owned ones? In recent years the United States government (not the military) has purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, enough to shoot the entire population five times over.
~ Matt Ridley
Many people are bothered about the number of privately owned guns in the United States, but what about publicly owned ones?
~ Matt Ridley
The Planned Parenthood Foundation was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, who thought philanthropy would 'perpetuate constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents'.
~ Matt Ridley
For people who want to question whether the US has a racist history, just go back and look at the political cartoons. The history is horrible. (2021 interview with Daily Cartoonist)
~ Matt Wuerker