"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

Argument, Debate, Doubt, Leaders

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"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Argument, Arguments, Soldiers

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Argument, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Argument, Conviction, Sense, Will

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

Argument, Conservative, Economy, Weather

"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

John Hume, Irish Politician

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"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."

Life

"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."

Peace

"Experts often possess more data than judgment."

Knowledge

"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world."

Time

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."

Ego

"It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

Will

"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

Age

"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."

Compromise

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."

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"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."

Will