Quotes about Controversy
Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.
— John Calvin
I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.
— George W. Bush
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
— Donald Trump
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
— Muhammad Ali
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
— Bill Bailey
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
— Martin Luther
After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.
— George W. Bush
We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.
— Martin Luther
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
— WA Criswell
Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.
— Dan Quayle