Controversial Quotations

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.

It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ so powerfully that no truly converted person could ever be aligned with these controversial concepts and procedures contrary to the Lord's plan of salvation.

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable.

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.