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Quotes About Controversy

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.
~ Rocco Buttiglione
Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
~ Dick Francis
There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.
~ Paul Broun
The Affordable Care Act has hurt more people that it's helped.
~ Kevin Brady
You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.
~ Lynne Truss
I've never felt like thumping Piers Morgan. Others may do, but not me. He's exhilarating to be around.
~ Kate Garraway
I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don't like BYU.
~ Bryce Harper
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?
~ Richard Cohen
There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.
~ Gregory Stock
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
~ Jose Canseco
I think we had kind of a die-hard fan base when it came out, but a lot of the people were angry with Motley for getting rid of Vince, or Vince leaving or whatever happened.
~ John Corabi
there were things I thought needed saying and I knew that other people were reluctant to say them
~ Thomas Sowell
financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.
~ Thomas Sowell
Adam Smith declared "the good temper and moderation of contending factions" to be "the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people." But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that "the system is rigged" against them and morality is just a giant fraud?
~ Thomas Sowell
The one truism in all politics is that loud voices will be raised against any decision that is made.
~ Timothy Zahn
The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words.
~ Tobias Wolff
It is only our limited time frame that creates the whole natives versus exotics controversy. Wind animals, sea currents, and continental drift have always dispersed species into new environments... The planet has been awash in surging , swarming species movement since life began. The fact that it is not one great homogeneous tangled weed lot is persuasive testimony to the fact that intact ecosystems are very difficult to invade.
~ Toby Hemenway
Moderate MPs hated McDonnell even more than they did Corbyn.
~ Tom Bower
Only the young and the beautiful should be allowed to fuck.
~ Tom Robbins
Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, be, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended her.
~ Tom Robbins
They called her a disgrace to the nurturing traditions of womankind. They threatened to paint a mustache on her and shoot off her nipples.
~ Tom Robbins
who not only had once posed for naked pictures but who, on at least two occasions, had openly expressed reservations about Rome's prohibition against birth control.
~ Tom Robbins
Jimmie Davis beat the certifiably insane incumbent Earl K. Long, had been all about keeping blacks out of the schools. On inauguration day, Davis (composer of the song "You Are My Sunshine") rode his horse right into the legislature
~ Tom Sancton
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
~ Tom Stoppard