Quotes About Controversy

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

I won the Premier League and played for England but it seems everyone always remembers me best for swearing live on BBC One on a Sunday afternoon.

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

All my black friends can't swim. Is that bad?

Is it my fault that there is a stereotype that black people are not good swimmers? I know that's a joke, but somebody will say, 'I can't believe you would say that.' Well, first of all it's just a joke, and second of all if you watch the Olympics, black people win medals in jumping, running. They don't win any in swimming.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.

It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.

What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.

There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

The flag is a symbol of our freedom, and burning it absolutely is one of the least patriotic things that a person could possibly do. I say 'one of the least' because I can think of a few things that would actually be less so - and, as a matter of fact, I think that banning flag-burning would absolutely be on that list.

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.

There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

shawn is a bitch

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You ' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life ' were you?'