Quotes About Controversy

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

Admittedly I agreed with Rupert Murdoch that 'Page 3' is 'old fashioned' and the removal based on that is plausible, but surely 'Page 3' is an institution?

I have undergone plastic surgery. I got my breasts done. Big deal.

I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery.

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right?

There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as part of my routine - after all, the essence of humour, even in a child, is the effort to shock and surprise.

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

I think there are a lot of circumstances that surround the Clinton family that aren't explainable, and I will let people go on and research it for themselves. And if they think there is something fishy going on, leave it to them.

Well, all he did was kill a Negro," I said. "I guess that's only a misdemeanor.

A volunteer police force tries to keep women in their place or put them back in it. The online world is full of mostly anonymous rape and death threats for women who stick out—who, for instance, participate in online gaming or speak up on controversial issues, or even for the woman who recently campaigned to put women's images on British banknotes

Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. MATTHEW 10:34

Is there a rule that a messiah can't write what he thinks is true, the things that have been fun for him, that work for him? And then maybe if people don't like what he says, instead of shooting him they can burn his words, hit the ashes with a stick? And if they do like it, they can read the words another time, or write them on a regrigerator door, or play with whatever ideas make sense to them? Is there something wrong with writing?

In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died:

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.