There’s more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

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

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

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

And you don’t care if the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Don’t you believe in anything?!

I always wear my seat belt when I drive a point home.

The debate going on between us is really a debate about whether we want to take the Democratic Party back to where it was before Bill Clinton transformed it in 1992, or whether we want...

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

If someone pulls something and we get into a big debate about it, the public is totally left out of the debate. We’re going to try to avoid that and keep government totally open.

The truth is what we say it is…prove to me this desk is not a cow!

The research and critical thinking skills one garners from debate help as a student. The tools and skills you get from debate are of great value.

Our policy is the same toward the United States that it has so far been. There is no debate about relations and negotiation with the U.S. There has been no change in our policy.

We were divided by color. Not black and white, but colour/color. She was British, and I was honoured to engage her in a spelling debate.

I don’t really have a price tag. We should debate on how to use the surplus and not just rush to spend it,

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

I’m absolutely thrilled, … It’s really nice to be able to take your research and lend something to the public debate about what’s going on. It’s really cool to get that recognition for myself and...

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis – otherised and stigmatised – you become the prop in a proposition.

Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn’t seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to...

We need to conduct a public debate on this issue.

We are not confined to the Starr referral, … That was the debate we had on the floor with the resolution that empowered us to review the material from the independent counsel. Mr. (Rick) Boucher...

The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.

He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that...

This is a debate about two completely different judicial philosophies. It’s not about a litmus test issue. It’s not about one or two issues. It’s about literally dozens of issues that are part of a...

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective...

I’ve enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer’s program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O’Reilly. I will do it any time.

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid ‘us vs. them.

Even a debate in the council, perhaps at the foreign minister’s level, raises the ante and political tensions in capitals around the world that Iran is not meeting its obligations and appears to be developing...

Everyone involved really needs to look at the proposal and debate what makes sense, … We need to look closely at all of these issues and understand what the impact would be on these servers.

Our parties and Presidential candidates must find ways to differ without being destructive, to debate without demonizing, to put our national interest ahead of special interests, to take the long view rather than the most...

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

He’s like I am. He’s trying to be part of the debate, and in the end, I hope both of us are.

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that...

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

This is Kaine’s debate. It’s Kaine’s audience. It’s probably Kaine’s region, … one of the most one-sided debates I’ve ever seen.

More than anybody in town, I would like to move on from the Blue Back debate.

My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, … Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.

So as we have this debate about the personal accounts, I think it is very important for us to recognize that diverting 4 percent of your Social Security taxes into this is never going to...

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to ‘save the honor of the Left’, as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it...

was characterized by freer debate, increased transparency and improved access to the media, in contrast with previous polls.

People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It’s just your opinion vs someone else’s opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between...

A congressional debate now . . . would complicate our efforts

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by ‘better’ such things as more...

If you want to explore debate, wonderful. If you want to explore music, wonderful.

There is nothing sexier than sword fight.

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and...

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who...

Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to...