Quotes About Controversy

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

I'm from Texas, so I'm an LBJ fan. He passed more civil-rights bills than any other president. He made a mistake in Vietnam, but who didn't?

The Vietnam War soured President Johnson's legacy. We still have to recognize his domestic legacy.

Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors - in my view, manufactured.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

I must admit, my old tribe is not unanimous on the view I've taken, but there are other folks like me, other former directors of the NSA who have said building in backdoors universally in Apple or other devices actually is bad for America. I think we can all agree it's bad for American privacy.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her.

As the show continues, it will get uglier. Eventually it will just be this raging little Jewish man screaming into the camera.

Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress.

Sometimes what really damages us is not so much the controversy but the impression that we don't really understand others' objections.

I don't know about you, but I say we shoot the fuckers, bury the bodies and deny they were ever here." - Mordecai

No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don't I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.

Hell, what was one more scandal?

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

the border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention.

Over 80 percent of all GMOs grown worldwide are engineered for herbicide tolerance. As a result, use of toxic herbicides like Roundup has increased fifteen times since GMOs were introduced. GMO crops are also responsible for the emergence of 'super weeds' and 'super bugs': which can only be killed with ever more toxic poisons

women who liquidated their unborn children, the very magma of resentment on which Ronald Reagan's appeal had seemed always to float.

this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.