Quotes About Controversy

There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

I don't wear a lot of jeans, which I know is a controversial statement. I just don't feel the most like myself in jeans.

Any time you make a big statement about something in the world, you are bound to ruffle some feathers.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

There are those who would say that those who are for two states and dividing Jerusalem are anti-Israel. In that case then, I'm anti-Israel.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South - in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted.

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.

Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.