Quotes About Controversy

Are we talking about sending the FBI or the National Guard to close abortion clinics?" I asked. "We'll see when I get to be president," he answered. Huckabee smiled.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

But while Prince was publicly portraying himself as a masochist, unreleased tracks from this era reveal that he was simultaneously indulging his more sadistic side. 'Extra Loveable' and 'Lust U Always' might have caused controversy if they had made it onto the album, as both tracks feature Prince threatening rape.

Buckley called him "Mr. Evil," "a dangerous man," and a "great phony." Buckley deplored the "uncouthness that seems to account for his general popularity.

The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue and collusion)

One of the tragic patterns of Everett's life was that he detested controversy but repeatedly placed himself in the middle of some of the great Massachusetts, American, and Anglo-American controversies of his lifetime.

All interest in every other topic" seemed to be "eaten up" by the slavery question.

Por eso, yo contesto a esta presencia popular con las mismas palabras del 45: a la violencia le hemos de contestar con una violencia mayor. Con nuestra

Diez mil nacionalistas contrarios a los Estados Unidos y la democracia, y partidarios de los nazis, marcharon por la avenida Santa Fe, gritando desafiantemente: '¡Muerte a los cerdos ingleses!','Muerte a los judíos!' y '¡Neutralidad y Castillo!'".

IT IS NOT QUITE FAIR to say that all Republicans have become Trump toadies. Only most of them.

The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.

Do I write out of love for human beings? No, I write because I want to give my thoughts an existence in this world; and even if I thought that these thoughts would take away your rest and peace, even if I saw the bloodiest wars and the destruction of many generations sprouting from this seed of thought: — still I would scatter it

Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

pro-choice or pro-abortion.

Human life must be protected. Yet the abortion question has been turned into a political and a religious war.

They all hated Ronald Reagan with a uniform loathing, and it astonished Jules Jacobson that other people in America – a majority, apparently – actually liked him. Nixon had been an outright grotesque, and as far as she could see Reagan was one too, with his oiled hair and padded shoulders like some dunderheaded uncle.

I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.

They love their God and they love their guns. They will shoot you first and pray for forgiveness later.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

If his accusers charged Eckhart with heresy, then he charged them with stupidity.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

He stares at the them, mid mouthful. 'Please,' he says, after he's swallowed. 'It's bad enough that the middle-aged are having sex, without thinking of my aunt doing it. And I don't know why someone just doesn't tell Sam to use a condom instead of impregnating the women of the inner-west.

You chicks get hot and bothered about anything.