For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword. — Charles D Ellison Copy Share Image
The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger… — Frank Keating Copy Share Image
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Our climate is changing. That's a fact, and we need to have a real debate about how we should respond to it. — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on. — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
The WikiLeaks documents show how the media conspires and collaborates with the Clinton campaign including giving the questions and answers to Hillary… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman… — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
If people hate Michael Langdon, that's a good thing. I'm not going to debate that. I don't worry about making him likeable...… — Cody Fern Copy Share Image
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image