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"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."
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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."

"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."

"Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword."
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"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."

"While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security."

"The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control."

"The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount."

"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."

"Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror."

"When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut."

"If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does."

"When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes."

"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."
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