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"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
"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."
"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."
"When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate."
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
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"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."
"We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know."
"Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service."
"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong."
"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."
"I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people."
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