Quotes About Debate

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.

Politics, by definition, is risk averse. Perhaps that's why America was so awestruck when Barack Obama ended the Black vs White debate by painting his political canvas in shades of grey.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

I'm sure if there is a debate, Guantanamo Bay must be closed. And it should be closed, because it does not belong in a democracy.

Our constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and if anybody has a problem we should listen to him, instead of running after him.

If you and I believe two different things, I can attack you verbally all day, but if I can make you laugh and show you the absurdity of your argument, it will lower you guard. People let you in then.

You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't know.'

I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.

I am for the Second Amendment, but I am for common-sense gun legislation.

I'll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

I don't think Obama is trying to take our guns, and I don't think we have to fight the government to keep them.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

if you ask enough people, you'll find someone who will disagree with the majority and give those nervous about risk a way out.

Another whispered low to his fellow, and said, "He is mistaken, for it is rather like an illusion created by some Sorcerer, as conjurers do at those great feasts." Of sundry doubts did they thus chatter and debate, as ignorant people are wont to do about things that are crafted more cunningly than they can comprehend in their ignorance, and they usually expect the worst.

Anyone who wishes to imply superiority in their particular line of work is apt to style themselves an artist. The imperatives of fitness display allow us to understand the passion with which people debate whether something is or is not an art. A claim that one's work is art is a claim for sexual and social status.

You can't rationally argue out what wasn't rationally argued in.

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion