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Peter Jennings

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."

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Amber Hurdle

"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."

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"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."

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Amber Hurdle

"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

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Amber Hurdle

"The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral."

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Amber Hurdle

"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary.' If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention."

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