Controversial Quotes · Page 11

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

— Andrew Weil

The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the…

— Noam Chomsky

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's,…

— Bill Gates

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial…

— Billy Graham

I have to tell you, a few people had very controversial feelings about what I was doing with Gucci at the beginning,…

— Frida Giannini

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Victor Davis Hanson

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

— Bobby Jindal

[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never…

— Van Jones

John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott…

— Milton Friedman

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

One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal…

— Dan Barker

There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with…

— Peter Adamson

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success…

— Muhammad Ali

I never really expected to be controversial.

— B. F. Skinner

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

— Elliott Abrams

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

— Charles Barkley

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of…

— Meryl Streep

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media…

— Chuck D

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

— Scott McNealy

I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I…

— Hal Whitehead

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who…

— Richard Flanagan

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented…

— David Henry Hwang

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been…

— Tim Howard