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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm a controversial guy.

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

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.

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

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.