"How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest……" — Edward Abbey

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• If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
• Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person. — Charles Barkley
• When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's… — Rob Bell
• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. — Erma Bombeck
• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government… — Barbara Bush
• I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant.… — Sherman Alexie
• I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you… — Jimmy Carter
• I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most… — Dick Cheney
• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of… — Jesse Bering
• Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. — Dean Acheson
• In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look… — Rick Santorum
• The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is… — Rick Santorum

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