I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary.

There was a lot of debate whether these jetties should have been built. It might have been better if they’d gone further north. There’s a rock reef here about 12 feet below the surface, so...

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

Love is two unicorns arguing over which is better: one animal with two horns, like a bull, or two animals with one horn apiece. I guess it doesn’t matter, because you should never debate when...

Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

This has been the source of much public debate. But I ask everyone to respect the decision and offer Jens the trust he needs.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of...

With this complex issue, the devil is truly in the details. Too much of the debate has not been focused on provisions that would bar the courthouse door for many immigrants who deserve their day...

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.