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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress
View quotes by Joseph Joubert

Discussion is the first infirmity of feeble minds.
View quotes by Edward F Benson

Discussion in America means dissent.

View quotes by James Thurber

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
View quotes by Wendell Phillips

We had a discussion but I didn't ask for his opinion [on Mourinho moaning]
View quotes by Raymond Domenech

We're having a philosophical discussion about the yob ethics of professional footballers.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
View quotes by Franklin Pierce

The Cuban revolution had just taken place, and there was a tremendous discussion going on about it [on reading about Marxism]
View quotes by Henry Flynt

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
View quotes by John Stuart Mill

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
View quotes by Tocqueville

At my house, the main discussion at lunch was what we were going to have for dinner. Salads were either macaroni or Waldorf.
View quotes by Paul Lynde

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
View quotes by Clement Attlee

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
View quotes by Robertson Davies

The first comment I read was very nice, and the next comment was terribly flattering, and then the next one said something like 'I can't bear the sight of him!' [on web forum discussion on him being Doctor Who]
View quotes by David Tennant

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
View quotes by Quintus Cicero

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.
View quotes by Arthur Hertzberg

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
View quotes by James Baldwin

'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001

'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000

'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000

BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000

'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'

-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000

'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid

'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush



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