Quotes About Controversy

My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.

I'm not against pulling down our statues of Confederate generals and Confederate leaders.

In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was - not a president, but a blundering cheat.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world not only ran our country, they were also revered - and often despised - as larger-than-life personalities who could perform feats mere mortals could only dream of.

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

I do believe, sooner rather than later, churches will face the loss of their tax-exempt status if they do not engage in same-sex ceremonies.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

Sign stealing has been a part of the game forever.

The Colts are outstanding at stealing calls.

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

I'd like to fuck Andrea Laiacona and see her tits, but I can't get hard and I prefer Big Pharma, anyway! (Color me 'bitch' — I ain't shit !)

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.