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Phil Bredesen

"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."

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"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."

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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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"I don't debate with liars."

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"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."

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"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."

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"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."

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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

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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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"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."

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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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