John McCain Quotes

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

Rape and other forms of sexual violence were used in Kosovo in 1999 as weapons of war and instruments of systematic "ethnic cleansing." Rapes were not rare and isolated acts committed by individual Serbian or Yugoslav forces, but rather were used deliberately as an instrument to terrorize the civilian population, extort money from families, and push people to flee their homes. Rape also furthered the goal of forcing ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man's law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women.

Women have long found themselves grieving for the dead and caring for the wounded during and after war, but … as more and more women become war fighters themselves, they too face danger and see horrors, often with the added burden if sexual harassment and worse at the hands of their fellow warriors—burdens aggravated by official indifference.

When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in my life, it's like a comedy - you can laugh at my pain.

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.