Controversial Topic Quotes

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Whenever the abortion issue is raised, people are asked to compromise their principles in order to reach some sort of political accommodation.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

Don't bother about the complicated details. The issue is hot.

Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT.

As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.

A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.

I'm a controversial guy.

We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we don't even want to say the word.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.