Quotes About Debate

If everybody agrees with your point of view, you haven't thought hard enough.

I like Aristotle, but I don't agree with his cosmological argument about god.

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.