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Peter Jennings

"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."

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Donna Grant

"There's always merit to having a debate."

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"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."

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