Debate Quote by T. Baggins

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“If he's being honest, half the reason he studied politics in college was because he liked the drama.”

— Austin Chant

“his friend had never harbored a second of patience for smooth, charismatic politicians who concealed more than they revealed and whose fallback answer to…

— G.S. Jennsen

“He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.”

— Thomas E. Mann

“It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.”

— Julia Scheeres

“I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“He liked his friends, but he had no interest in hearing their personal problems and he therefore couldn’t share his own. He”

— Liane Moriarty

“He knew who his audience was going to be—it was not going to be people who want to have policy debates. It was going…

— Joshua Green

“The more you win a debate intellectually, the more you lose it practically.”

— Daya Kudari

“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave…

— Anonymous

“No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas.”

— Steve Martin