Quotes About Controversy

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

At its height, Guantanamo's population of alleged combatants swelled to nearly 800.

American Presbyterians, as a whole, have already lost a large percentage of their population since 2008, in part because of the creation of the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (ECO) - which formed in 2012 as a response to the ordination of out gay men and lesbians within the PCUSA.

American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

Despite saying the letters 'LGBTQ' at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions.

Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.

I've always put out positivity, and I've always been very open and proud throughout my whole career, and at no point have I ever tried to cause controversy or just say something that wasn't totally in support of everyone in the community.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

I don't like posting my opinion on social media and responding to controversies that might follow.

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

Sometimes I just go, 'Is it me? Am I really just not that likeable?' The cool thing is, when you go out there and see a lady get mad or a guy get mad, or they hate you because you didn't come from the independents, or whatever, what I like to do is just pour kerosene on that fire.

I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

The BBC always wants to blame things on Brexit. I'm not saying this is a conspiracy: I'm saying it is a fact of life.

There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

The BJP has been trampling over democratic and constitutional principles since it came to power at the Centre in 2014.

Like many consumers, I love Uber. But not everyone does.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?