Quotes About Controversy

When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two decades organized boycotts of my show.

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

With everything that's happened since I was exposed as a scammer, I can't lie, it's been good for business. Now I can sell my story for way more than my original book deal ever was.

A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it.

Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, so how liberal is Hollywood? Honestly, it's not liberal enough for me!

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Medina Spirit earned his Kentucky Derby win and my pharmacologists have told me that 21 picograms of betamethasone would have had no effect on the outcome of the race.

Not everything people do is good - people make Coca Cola and some people want it and some people don't, but we don't outlaw it.

During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.

What better way to attract an audience than to get everyone to shout 'Outrage!' at the size of your advance?

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research, and you can do that at the same time and still retain an ability to function.

Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.