The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
I do not enter any controversy.
Speech controversies’ will come and go as they always have, but our countries’ shared values remain and Congress’ bipartisan support for a strong U.S.-Israel partnership is ironclad.
I have this idiot name tag which says ‘controversial.’
One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it’s truly funny, then it’s worth doing. Things aren’t worth doing for the sake of being controversial.
Toronto is a world-class city. You don’t have a debate here about immigration because you need it to just maintain your pensions: that’s dependent on people coming in to fund that. And again, I don’t want to be controversial, but I think the average education level in Canada is probably higher than in the United States.
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you’re likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion – hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.
Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what’s great about the movie or what works about the movie.
I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good ‘journalists’ are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That’s what we do nowadays and call it ‘journalism.’
When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they’d fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.
Whether that’s positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.
Controversy sells books.
My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.
I don’t care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can’t be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don’t care what other people think.
I think you don’t do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don’t understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
Sometimes as a player you do not want to get into a controversy.
It’s a controversial segment, ‘Watters World.’ There’s controversy around it.
Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.
I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.
I’m a storyline. I’m the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name – which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
I still have this image: I can’t be controversial, I can’t say things.
Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.
You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don’t think about whether it’s gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you’re in the zone.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy – the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
I get called ‘controversial’ all the time.
I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
I mean, casting gender non-conforming people in campaigns and editorials and on covers of magazines is a risk for any business because there’s going to be controversy, but I think they need to take the risk and believe they’re moving in the right direction.
From the start of her leadership of the Conservative party in February 1975, Thatcher’s style seemed shrill and uncompromising, and she became an easy object of mockery. When she left office nearly 16 years later, she was a widely recognised, but clearly still highly controversial, figure.
I started reading and learned that we don’t need any of it – meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things – except maybe B12, but there’s this whole controversy that maybe we’re only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.
My books have all generated controversy.
I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I’ve been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I haven’t followed the rules, because I don’t see the point of submitting yourself to a set of rules if you don’t follow them. But having said that, it is always a lot of interpretation.
I am an innocent man, but I don’t want to indulge in any controversy.
Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
I think that people live in safe spaces these days; they don’t want to deal with the controversy and the drama.
I’ve always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.
I’ve always been very bold – some would say brash. I’ve always said very edgy, controversial statements.
The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the Obama administration believes.
Personally, I choose to stay away from controversies.
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there’s always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It’s simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It’s a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.
If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you’d end up with a very thin and meaningless show.
I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I’m a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
No secret that for some years – long before my time – Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can’t help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I’m quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
