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"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."
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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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"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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"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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"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
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"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions."
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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and 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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"Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword."
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"Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services."
Education
"Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001."
Internet
"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."
Debate
"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."
Debate
"It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security."
Finance
"Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt."
Burden
"This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job."
Chance
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