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Quotes About Controversy

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.
~ J. C. Ryle
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
~ Danny Strong
In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
~ Ann Widdecombe
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
~ Andrew Sullivan
I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
~ Zola Budd
Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!
~ L. Neil Smith
The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
~ H. L. Mencken
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
~ Charles Dickens
Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.
~ Jon Stewart
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
~ Asghar Farhadi
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.
~ Loretta Lynn
Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.
~ Jon Stewart
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
~ Roger Ebert
Donald Trump turned politics on its head.
~ Paul Ryan
The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.
~ Charlie Pierce
It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.
~ Rachel Maddow
If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.
~ Dick Morris
I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
~ Sam Wyly
I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
~ Tony Blair
It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.
~ Stephen Farnsworth
You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.
~ William J. Clinton
My morals went when the president got oral.
~ Eminem
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.
~ Glenn Reynolds