Quotes About Controversy

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

I think what I do is positive, in its own way.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.

Any truth creates a scandal.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect—and it is—but I had long since

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

I don't like politics.

The fiercely independent Arnold did not need the encouragement of Loyalists: he may have thought of changing sides as early as the seniority controversy two years earlier

Een oude theologische strijdmethode: een stelling poneren, zo belachelijk en dom, dat oppositie ertegen automatisch even belachelijk en dom wordt.