Controversial Quotes

James Toney is too controversial.

— James Toney

I never really expected to be controversial.

— B. F. Skinner

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

— Amitabh Bachchan

“No controversy, no PR.”

— Tim Fargo

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

— Eva Le Gallienne

Everything controversial is good for boxing.

— Chris Eubank Sr

I'm very... controversial for some reason.

— Lil Peep

“Only idiots are not controversial.”

— Osho

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

— Maurice Sendak

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

— Martina Navratilova

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

— Monica

My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

— Lady Gaga

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

— Rosie Perez

Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.

— Dan Crenshaw

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

— Liam Neeson

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

— Dorothy Draper

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily…

— Jane Alexander

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who…

— Carine Roitfeld

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that.…

— Ariel Pink

Some shows do nosedive at the end, or some piece of content could become incredibly controversial and affect the way the show…

— Jed Mercurio

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a…

— Ehud Olmert

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

— Donald Trump

I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.

— Romany Malco

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

— Bobby Jindal

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first…

— Matt Groening

I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that…

— Jessicka

“Dissent is most controversial during wartime because it is cast as unpatriotic and dangerous to the national cause. But that is precisely…

— Dan Rather

I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change.…

— Sam Branson

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their…

— Harvey Pekar

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but…

— Sean Penn

Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing…

— Mel Watt

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One…

— Spiro T. Agnew

It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,…

— Paolo Gentiloni

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in…

— John Legend

All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings…

— Beth Grant

Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his…

— Martin Sorrell

The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Let's put it in perspective at the United States Supreme Court, which hears maybe 60 cases a year, most of the cases…

— Martha Minow

There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to…

— Tony Abbott

This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes…

— Andrew Bird