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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"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

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"Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool."

Charles Simmons, American Author

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"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

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"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

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"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."

James L. Buckley, American Politician

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"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

John Sayles, American Director

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

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"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."

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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."

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"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."

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"Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff."

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"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support."

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"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."

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"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

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

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"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

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