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Quotes About Controversy

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
~ Alexander Haig
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.
~ Dee Dee Myers
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
~ Bill Shuster
I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.
~ Glenn Ligon
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
~ Noam Chomsky
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
~ Alice Morse Earle
It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
~ Cameron van der Burgh
The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.
~ Tomi Lahren
Poor Ron Paul. He means well. He really does. But there's something about him. I don't know what it is. From falling victim to Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno to that old-man shuffle, he just seems like kind of a... like kind of a sissy.
~ John Gourley
The Democratic Media Complex, in its pursuit of Orwellian hate-crime legislation, reparations, and sundry non-ameliorative resolutions to America's troubled racial past, pursues its victims with blood lust.
~ Andrew Breitbart
Mr. Trump of course feels sorry for what the Khan family has gone through, just, frankly, as he felt sorry for the victims that spoke before the Republican Convention who lost loved ones from illegal immigrant criminals coming in and being able to travel the country freely.
~ Paul Manafort
In most cases, the only genuine victims of the 'safe places' demands for censorship are conservative student groups and their invited guest speakers.
~ Tom Tancredo
Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
~ Norman Finkelstein
Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'
~ Lee Grant
I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.
~ Cory Monteith
I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn't some violence that we know from video games.
~ Rich Moore
People who make videos bashing other people are like people who run into a public square and scream into a pillow. They'll get attention, but they won't change anything.
~ Scott Cawthon
If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.
~ Luther Campbell
I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.
~ Michelle Phan
I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.
~ Shane Dawson
The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
~ David Letterman
I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
~ Loretta Lynn