Quotes About Controversy

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Socialism is a movement that loves a smear.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.

Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He's so passionate... about art, about culture, about creativity. And he's really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.

I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I'm going to listen to those guys.

I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology.

Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies.

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

When Ronald Reagan's administration was exposed for having illegally sold arms to Iran to raise money covertly for the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, Reagan acknowledged that the evidence was damning - yet defended the principle behind the scheme.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

I'm sure I'll get lambasted for this, but I don't get the Asuka thing. Like, I really don't. She's fine, and she's solid, but I don't know. Even going back to the NXT stuff, I've watched it. I don't know. I just never really bought in.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

Don't like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn't always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it - and, in fact, I'd say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.

Internationally, I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems with 1,000lb bombs; domestically, I propose they start addressing inequality by paying reparations for slavery. I'm well aware that in a society where war and discrimination are now almost entirely normalised, both options sound like madness.

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.