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Quotes About Controversy

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
~ Alec Baldwin
In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
~ Edmund Morgan
As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.
~ Jack Kent Cooke
The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
~ Cenk Uygur
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
~ Rachel Kushner
I'm willing to keep an open mind about the existence of God or whether or not Joye's Ulysses is a great novel, but I have no doubt that one way or another child molesters are nurtured, not born.
~ Rafael Yglesias
Deplorable Oregonian @JaneSkillman · 49 minutes ago · 201 What the HELL is wrong with Virginia? PART 5 You will give up your guns, if you don't I'll have the National Guard cut your power, your phone lines, and your internet. Then, if you still refuse to comply I'll have you killed. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Democrat. #WWG1WGA #2A #Trump2020 #KAG2020 #Blacks #BlacksForTrump #LatinosForTrump #Virginia #MAGA #Independents #WomenForTrump #TakeBackTheHouse
~ Ralph Northam
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
~ Ralph Peters
The Congress chief minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal, gave Sanjay's Maruti car company 300 acres of land at a giveaway price.
~ Ramachandra Guha
The whole world has been fooled in the name of corona and lockdown. Very well said by that Delhi couple who refused to pay challan for not putting up mask. Hats off to their bravery
~ Rameshh Shanegar
many of his pranks involved electric shock—these stunts gain interest in retrospect, knowing as we do of Edison's future work on the ultimate instrument of shock, the electric chair. In
~ Randall E. Stross
If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.
~ Randy Newman
Don't offend the gays and don't inflame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day of the epidemic. Inspired by the best intentions, such arguments paved the road toward the destination good intentions inevitably lead.
~ Randy Shilts
He who used to create fake news is talking on Anti-Hindus topic and the fools are applauding him.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
~ Ray Comfort
we were accused of having torn down a Greek Revival "landmark" building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so we could build a McDonald's on the site. The writers failed to mention that the building was a wreck. It had been vandalized and burned before we bought it. The city of Cambridge had refused to designate it as a landmark building.
~ Ray Kroc
They feared slaves who "entertained ideas, that the present contest was for obliging us to give them their liberty."12 They feared the British, who "have been tampering with our Negroes; and have held nightly meetings with them; and all for the glorious purpose of enticing them to cut their masters' throats while they are asleep.
~ Ray Raphael
One evening, before shooting her live show, she gave me but one instruction, which has haunted me to this day: "Make sure you present the real me. There is nothing worse than a book that sugar-coats the truth and ducks the humanity of the person. I wish you forty years in purgatory if you do that!" Hoping to steer clear of that ignoble end, I have written a book that does not avoid controversy or the seeming contradictions inherent in Mother Angelica's character:
~ Raymond Arroyo
Reformation is the recovery of biblical truth in its redemptive claim on the whole of life. Revival is the renewal of human flourishing by the Holy Spirit according to the gospel. Marriage is one of the primary flashpoints of controversy where we most need both reformation and revival in our times.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
I don't like hot takes any more than I like hot cakes.
~ Jim Nantz
Why is the Right so afraid of being called racist? Why do they attack their allies on the Right, even calling us racist?
~ Mike Cernovich
Everybody's calling me out. Why do you think everybody wants to fight me? I'm the money fight.
~ Colby Covington
If God used evolution, God came from an ape.
~ Ken Ham