Quotes About Controversy

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I was the first comic in world history, so they told me, to pick fights with children.

I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.

[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.

The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.