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.

There’s more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

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

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.

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 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...

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

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.

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...

I’m really on the other side of this issue and I think it will be a spirited debate ? and a critical one for the community. So let the games begin as they say.

The debate system is set up to keep me out of the debates,

A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will eventually be discovered. But even if the majority view is correct,...

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ’s...

If this enables debate about where to put the stadium and brings it back to the forefront, that is very problematic. It would be very hard to get seven votes to keep the stadium at...

After debating with a religious scholar you leave the room but suddenly you are pushed and about to hit the ground. If you fall and hit the ground; they will tell you, you saw the...

We want to end the Blue Back Square debate and I am sure that we will all be able to breathe a sigh of relief when we can move on. I feel more confident than...

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope – to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that...

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.