Quotes About Controversy

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.

Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.

Tanushree Dutta is the real pig and not me. She is the sewer and not me. Just look at her face, she has become like a fat ugly buffalo.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.

Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

I don't think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is un-American. It is not good. What the president is doing, everybody needs to realize that what he's doing is saying, 'Let's take a step back. Let's temporarily pause.'

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.