Controversial Actions Quotes

My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned.

It’s less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it might be loathsome.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.

If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

It is the nature of covert activities to be controversial.

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

I would walk over my grandmother if necessary to get Nixon reelected!

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

I wouldn't support a guy who's got Donald Trump's behavior.

I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.