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"And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril."
Encouragement
"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."
Debate
"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
Defeat
"There is no pure free-market economy."
Economy
"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
Religion
"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest."
Power
"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."
Experience
"A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created."
War
"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
Government
"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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Personal Development
"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
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Personal Development
"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."
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Personal Development
"If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?"
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Personal Development
"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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Personal Development
"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."
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Personal Development
"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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Personal Development
"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
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Personal Development
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