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.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

There is a debate among peace activists if impeachment is the thing to do.

What we’re doing is protecting elderly disabled immigrants in nursing homes, … They’re not part of the welfare reform debate. The welfare reform debate is about moving people from welfare to work.

There is nothing more to debate.

The debate on interest-rate cuts is still a live one.

We did have a long hydrocarbon debate before we built, so we used propane. We also tried to do something fairly aggressive with solar heating. We generally produce about 30 percent of our energy.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

That said, the disclosure debate is one that needs to happen. The idea of full disclosure is just about as dangerous as no disclosure at all. As with most things, we have to find the...

I think it’s pretty clear that every debate she’s participated in has been a disaster for her.

Over and above the debate about which of us is best we both represent our continent and we both play in big clubs.

Countries like Sweden and Italy have been having this huge debate for many years over population decline. A lot of the debate is about immigration: People have been telling them they need to increase immigration...

He’s going to debate the Republican opponent in the general election, not in the primary. The Republicans should have their own debate.

Now it’s not a one-sided debate. You have a message getting out there in a much more positive way.

Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movement’s puzzle. If you can’t win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him out to be a bad...

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state...

I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

Search engines are the future of [that] debate. Questions about policy ultimately are going to be handled by search engines — whether we live in a more or less government-controlled country.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they’ll keep it – and nobody can stop that, end of debate.

We will have a very tough debate in the second half of 2002,

The White House used a lot of capital and were very adamant on the format of this debate, being very particular to do something that plays to Dick Cheney’s strengths, and I assume, shielded some...

I think we are getting stronger. We’ve opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn’t think of doctrines as primarily “true” or “false,” but as “academic”...

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky [“Letters,” December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the “roots” of September 11. I rush to agree....

the terms of debate of what constitutes development.

I had a dream about you. We were debating the nature of love, and you said it was invisible, and I said it was the color of gold. You accused me of being a banker,...

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.

There is unmistakable proof that abusers do get together in order to share children, abuse more children, and even learn from each other. As more cases have come into the public eye in recent years,...

Jim gibbons is anxious to debate his opponents and we’ll do it as soon as we know who his opponents are but he has a full-time day job he was elected to, and we have...

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

He has said he will debate his Democratic opponents during the primary, and we’re in the process of determining the appropriate time and place.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

He drives the meetings and asks tough questions. He likes dissent. He likes debate. He thinks it’s very healthy, very constructive for the process.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities – wars and massacres, acts of terrorism, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the...

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

De som har makt over ordene bør være edru blant de rasende.

As successful as these students are at debate tournaments, it all comes from the work they do before they leave.

…There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and...

One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science...

If we come out of this third debate on the presidential level with three victories and the extra added debate ends up being pivotal in this race, the White House might look at the chair...