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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."

"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."

"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."

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