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.

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.