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I am used to controversies.

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.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

People like controversy because that's what sells.