Quotes About Controversy

I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement - specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

There's always speculation around the best players.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.