Quotes About Debate

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.

I am against the Islamisation of France.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.

Free speech is never out of the news.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

Donald Trump has a curious understanding of what freedom of speech means.

Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a little friendly banter, even with someone I disagree with.

Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.

I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.

Oh Senator, how could you be so cruel – and so ignorant of the true facts." "Facts are facts, Mrs. Byerson….There are no such things as true facts, for then we'd have to have false facts, wouldn't we.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Nikad ne pokušavaj razložno razgovarati s ljudima koji vjeruju da su u pravu.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.