When Ms. Griffin mouths off at Ms. Palin — or Charlie Sheen, Oprah Winfrey, Ryan Seacrest and others in her constantly updated roster of celebrity targets — it's with the knowledge that the cracks will only endear her further to her fan base, mostly gay men and straight women who appreciate her persona as an outspoken, suffer-no-fools, pop culture gadfly.
He may be a year older, a bit wiser — but it is clear he is no less outspoken.
"That period was a joke!" He is no less outspoken about incidents of anti-Americanism in Canada.
Four years of touring as Millie's defence counsel have made Walsh no less outspoken about the things that generally remain unspoken.
Jesse Helms made his long career in Washington by muttering about "bloc votes," but he's been gone from the Senate since 2003, and he has no similarly outspoken successors.
Works by such icons as the late Hannah Wilke (filmed doing a striptease behind Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass, Adrian Piperer (whose video installation uses windows to symbolize racial divides), and Carolee Schneeman (whose notorious "Interior Scroll" performance is seen in a photograph) are accompanied by those of younger but no less outspoken women including Tracey Emin and Tracey Moffatt.
The "war on drugs" had no more outspoken champion than the liberal Massachusetts Democrat and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Reacting to the death from a crack overdose of Len Bias, a promising Boston Celtics recruit, O'Neill helped push through the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed mandatory sentences, asset forfeitures, and the severe sanctions on crack.
She was outspoken, no-nonsense, sympathetic and generous with her time and her patronage, both to organisations and individuals.
Although in some ways Mr. Christie's outspoken, no-holds-barred style might seem like an antidote to Mr. Obama, whom Mr. Christie has criticized for weak leadership, there have also been times when Mr. Christie's messaging has resembled that of the president.
Over more than 40 years in public service, Waters has been a bold, outspoken, no-nonsense voice for progressive issues.
