top of page
"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Debate quotes

"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."

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

"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."

"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."
Explore more quotes by Vanessa Kerry

"I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country."

"It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories."

"It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed."

"You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one."

"I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people."

"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
bottom of page