Quotes About Controversy

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

I know many judges who are homosexual.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.

There are comics who choose to be controversial, and people have to make a judgment call. You either watch it or you don't. It's possible to be funny about anything, it just depends on how you approach it and if you've got good self-editing skills.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

June 10, 2002, the day John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Jose Padilla, marked a low point in Ashcroft's career as Attorney General.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

Well honestly, I do stay away from being political, especially about Trump. It's just one of those things.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.

There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.'

Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don't have to agree with everything he says, but you do have to defend his right to say it.

I don't know. I respect Kanye, but when it comes to Trump, I'm not into that, man.

I always make fun of Kanye West.

Derogatory against women - it seems that Trump is not too keen about having women around him, maybe except for his wife and daughter.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

I'm not feeling R. Kelly. And I got a daughter, so I'm super not jacking R. Kelly at all.

I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

R. Kelly is my favorite singer.