Doug Ose Quotes

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

You can't cuss on TV. It does hurt your brand if you do stuff like that. That's not what blue chip sponsors are looking for.

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.

I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.

I never swore when I was young.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.