Quotes About Controversy

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids?

Obviously there's a lot of power in a tweet from Trump.

It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.

There is a place for the hot take. There is a place for the tweet.

The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.

We live in an age of micro aggressions where people are deemed racist or sexist of phobic for making one wrong tweet.

What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.

In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.

A bad Tweet can cause scandal, shame, even possibly end a politician's career.

Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which lets him do that.

If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.

My favorite tweets are the, 'I used to like and then you said this,' 'I used to like you then you suggested that president Trump was not the savior of all of us.' It's absolutely ridiculous.

Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.

For some people, every word out of Trump's mouth is 'hate speech' that they have tried to stamp out for four years. Twitter's suppression of the president's tweets was the culmination of those efforts.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

I was assaulted twice by Aisleyne Horgan Wallace and Janice Dickinson.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump out there.

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.