I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.