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"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."
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"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."
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"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
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"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
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"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs."
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"The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount."
Democracy
"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant."
Politics
"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
Racism
"If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does."
Time
"Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush."
Peace
"I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats."
Democracy
"Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it."
Time
"Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips."
Government
"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
Democracy
"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking."
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