Michel Houellebecq Quotes

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

It is well known that German intellectuals are reluctant to agree with French intellectuals and the French are reluctant to agree with the German.

Issues are a problem for politicians most of the time; the reason is that somebody won't like what you say when you start talking issues.

Opinion elites begin to shape a debate.

All people have the duty and the right to participate in public debate.

Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early '90s.

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.

I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to take any more stupid questions about Donald Trump. It's not what I focus on every day.

One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.