#controversial

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#always #consistent #controversial #decisions #despite

During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going. ↗

— James W. Black

#behalf #constantly #controversial #director #doubt

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#brought #cereal #controversial #family #family planning

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father. ↗

— Martha N. Beck

#controversial #faith #leaving #leaving-the-saints #mormonism

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#controversial #individual #leader #means #never

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#called #controversial #humorists #issue #people

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. ↗

— David Chalmers

#because #controversial #data #like #more

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people. ↗

— Norman Lear

#american people #controversial #heart #people #shows

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to.I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial. ↗

— Dave Sim

#comfortable #controversial #having #i #i do

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #controversial #controversy #debating #difference