Quotes About Controversy

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

I've got a lot of criticism for not taking domestic fights but I've got my own strategy.

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be a distant memory.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

But the rising chorus urging ESPN to change its stripes is missing something: The intersection of sports and politics is natural. And the left-wing lean of ESPN is inevitable. Conservatives bothered by the slant should stop hand-wringing and start their own network.

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?

There were some struggles throughout the year at RCR. In order to keep yourself relevant, you had to find a headline. In order to find a headline, you had to do something that wasn't right, like jump over a car or say something you shouldn't.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.