While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

It’s easier to win an argument over a dinner you’re paying for.

You could argue I’m a loser, but I’d win that debate thus proving you wrong by proving you wrong.

and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth...

And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This rather shallow piece appeared in the New York Times magazine, and...

The debate has to happen at the state level before it can be resolved at the federal level.

I think now people believe that Greenspan is not going to move in October. Now, so the debate has shifted to whether he takes a tightening bias or no tightening bias.

makes people think … and have a healthy debate and an open debate, rather than being so fiercely on one side or the other.

takes the pressure off the United Nations with regard to North Korea and avoids a contentious debate about sanctions at a time when talks with North Korea had stalled.

In his early days at University, he’d been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely...

When students participate in debate, they learn to study issues in depth and from perspectives, a skill I use everyday in the Senate.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts.

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and...

We don’t want an investigating committee against the Federal Intelligence Service, but a debate about political responsibility.

I should be included in the presidential debate because I’m the representative of a recognized party, one of three — Republicans, Democrats and Reform, … And the other two parties are engaged in a conspiracy...

We are quite open, but we don’t want a debate style, it is too confrontational in this kind of situation. We are willing to sit down and talk with all parties concerned, but still think...

[Noting that Bush said during the third campaign debate that he would] not impose a litmus test … would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations I’ve mentioned.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of...

The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they...

We’ve said all along that as soon as we figure out who’s qualified, we’ll debate those folks.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

It just amazes me every time I have a debate with the ACLU on this. What would you want, to have innocent names made public?

Where defibrillators should be placed, especially in a time of limited financial resources, involves an important debate.

The ease with which we can now get an audience for a discussion of religion does not prove that more people are becoming religious. What it really proves is the existence of a large “floating...

I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told “That’s offensive” as though those two words constitute an argument.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

What we have on the table is a proposal and the union board will debate, discuss and vote on it within the next few weeks.

[But while his true home looks likely to be the subject of debate for many years to come, what is known about the man is that he spent time abroad making a bit of a...

This reopens the debate about the validity of the findings of a protective effect for moderate drinkers, and it suggests that studies in the future be better designed to take this potential error into account.

We can debate about whether the workmanship was good or not — and probably it wasn’t very good,

I look forward to that debate, when John Kerry, a war hero with a chest full of medals, is standing next to George Bush, a man who was AWOL.

Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this...

I don’t pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I’ll win.

There has been this continual debate as to whether higher oil prices are inflationary or a restraint on growth. This year, the bond market has signaled that it is inflationary.

It was a debate, but it’s over now, and we’re working together to maintain this key element of economic development. For the most part, everybody’s looking at going forward now.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

We start building this party into the teens in the polls, then we get in that debate with Albert and with W.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

The Senate’s tradition is ruled to protect debate and guarantee that we can’t be trampled upon.

Comparing penis sizes is a much more nuanced and sophisticated way to determine who’s right than something as clunky and uncouth as a debate.

I once watched several criminals engage in an organized argument, while an audience of supporters cheered them on, but I was so disgusted that I had to turn off the political debate.

Amanda olhou para ele – Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e sou mãe e, tal como toda a gente, não sou perfeita. Debato-me com as escolhas...

Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that...

I think if Gore does Bush in on the first debate, Bush would be smart to open it up to four debates. Because if he can’t handle Al Gore maybe he wants to let me...

He is focused; he is totally focused on this preparation and on this debate, … It is an opportunity for the American people to see that he is a strong, smart, tough leader.

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won’t be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing....

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.