“I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.” PeopleWantSidesViewsNumbersGroupsJudgingFairsArgumentBoxesAgendasOpennessBoth SidesBallots Author:John Cornyn
“I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's doing is - represents a commitment to stand up to big business, to international corporations who favor more immigration and lower wages - that's what they favor - and a defense of the interest of the American people who go to work every day.” PeopleThinkingBigsMovingInterestEconomicTrumpCommitmentArgumentInternationalDefenseFavorsImmigrationCorporationsWagesBig Business Author:Jeff Sessions
“Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.” PeopleShouldArgumentClintonViolentCommitBordersRejectsFelony Author:Jeff Sessions
“There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.” PeopleFeelsWritingBookStoriesFallThousandPagesArgumentExcitingPassionateFantasticVolumeAdvertisementsRise And FallMemosMayer Author:Karina Longworth
“This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.” PeopleThinkingWayChristianReligiousViewsModernEffectsConcernArgumentEncouragementVariousPrincipalDeafness Author:William Murchison
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.” PeopleKindEarthTermMoralEconomicCenturyParticularTruth IsArgumentDecidedPhilosophicalSlaverySlaveWitnessInvestigationMetaphysicalTestimonyTheoreticalPros And Cons Author:Catherine Wilson
“President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.” PeopleTryingUsedPresidentArgumentPresidentialConvinceDisplayConvincingPresidential LeadershipConvincing OthersPresident Lincoln Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as having been there and made a fuss. This doesn't mean I don't believe in participatory democracy.” PeopleWantBelieveMeanMadeSometimesYoungDemocracyTelevisionGoes OnArgumentMeetingsDon't BelieveImpatientParticipatory Democracy Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.” PeopleWellsMayMadeDifferencesTrumpArgumentClintonInsane Author:Allan Nairn
“I think we at the faculty level have to model this behavior of having people that really truly disagree with one another be able to discuss those beliefs with one another at the level of discussion and argument and not at the level of, you know, personal attack so that our students can learn how to do that, too.” PeopleThinkingKnowsAbleBeliefLevelsStudentsBehaviorModelsArgumentDiscussionFacultyDisagreePersonal Attacks Author:Mark Schlissel
“Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.” PeopleNeedsIdeasEnemyArgumentCuriosityFixedImaginary Author:Duncan Green
“The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument.” PeopleWorldMeanWarCultureSocialBitsSportsSimpleDemocracyArgumentTradeUnionsPostsWar Of The WorldsOrganizedLabourAssociationRainbowWorkplaceCoalitionsSecond World WarFragmentedTrade UnionsFaith BasedSocial Democracy Author:Duncan Green
“People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.” PeopleIfsWantGivingShouldMightCitizensArgumentAgreeReasonable Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers
“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.” PeopleIfsFactsProblemAgeSocialSoundMediaInformationSeriousArgumentPhonesSocial MediaPropagandaBitesSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.” PeopleArgument Author:Billy Eichner
“One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.” PeopleThinkingWayFormInterestingWrittenCenturyInformationArgumentTasksGenrePleasantProseNonfictionVersesRhymeInteresting Things18th CenturyConveying Author:Robert Hass
“After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.” PeopleShouldTryingDoeIdeasReasonFormStuffImaginationSpecialInformationExpressionArgumentMereProsePopeRomanticism Author:Robert Hass
“All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable and why I would support him in this is that he has an absolutely impeccable record on the question of colour and race. People often wondered why. What I see as a possible explanation is [that] he came from a very wealthy family - a 'squattocracy' - and he had private education at home and then he went to boarding school at Melbourne Grammar School, one of those lead schools in Australia.” PeopleHomeSchoolRaceSupportRecordsOne ThingArgumentExplanationColourAustraliaWealthyGrammarImpeccableMelbourneGrammar School Author:Bob Hawke
“The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.” PeopleHomeRememberSocialArgumentCriticsChicagoFrankWorkplaceOld Friends Author:Jodi Kantor
“[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of humankind, it seems to me.” PeopleThinkingMenFirstsSeemsTurnsChoicesNumbersFairsArgumentMalesHumankindFetus Author:Nat Hentoff
“People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.” PeopleSupportRightsArgumentOfficialsLiedBeing Lied Author:Edward Snowden
“Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.” PeopleMadeIdeasRealArgumentDisappearContraryEducatedRadicalExposedConvincingPersuasiveHardened Author:Edward Snowden
“Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.” PeopleUseCrimeArgumentCodeUnifying Author:Charles Schumer
“There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the states. I can see a legitimate argument there. I think it's mistaken, however, because the federal government, through the decisions of life-tenured federal judges, has already taken over that area.” PeopleThinkingShouldMadeI CanStatesGovernmentLawDecisionTakenJudgingAreasArgumentAmendmentsMistakenFederal GovernmentConstitutional AmendmentsAlready TakenFederal Judges Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.” PeopleThinkingDifficultArgumentFunctionProvidingGlobalizationDifficult Things Author:Ken Moelis
“It's the same argument people say about the blogs. The blogs are responsible. No, they're not. The blogs are like anything else. You judge each one based on its own veracity and intelligence and all of that.” PeopleJudgingArgumentResponsibleBlogsVeracity Author:Jon Stewart
“I see no real argument in Britain that is concerned that an Indian company owns our most successful car manufacturer or that the sewer system under London is being renewed in part by Chinese investment. There are the odd voices that express concern but they are very marginal and they are not being listened to by the British people.” PeopleRealVoiceCompanySuccessfulCarConcernConcernedArgumentInvestmentBritishLondonChineseIndianOddBritainSewers Author:George Osborne
“Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or whatever. And Christianity in the fifteenth century, after all, was full of inquisitions and burnings at the stake, and so on and so on. So give Islam time, and it will reach the point of maturity that other religions have. But Mormonism is much younger than Islam, and it's got there already. So I don't think that's an argument that works.” PeopleThinkingGivingSaidStillsSometimesAgeChristianityMiddleCenturyArgumentIslamBurningMaturityStakesMiddle AgesCalendarsInquisitionMormonismBurning At The Stake Author:Salman Rushdie
“Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.” PeopleProblemSpeechArgumentFree Speech Author:Salman Rushdie
“Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it. Television is already harder because people's attention span becomes shorter with television. Cut to a commercial and all that.” PeopleWayAttentionCuttingTelevisionArgumentHarderPhilosophicalRadioMediumsAttention Span Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a minute. One party wants to give health insurance to the poor and the weak and the dispossessed, and one party wants to take away that health insurance and give tax breaks to rich people. You tell me: which side would Jesus fall on that argument?” PeopleWantGivingFallJesusSidesPoorPartyBreakRichClearMinutesRepublicanTaxesArgumentWeakDemocratNotionRich PeopleTax Breaks Author:Reza Aslan
“Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to "art for the market's sake." It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.” PeopleArtUsedArtistSocialArgumentSakeArguingRelatedEtcRealismVersus Author:Lee Klein
“As cities get more dense, you have people saying, "Why would you have an urban farm when you could have affordable housing on that property instead?" So there's an argument against it. Another huge thing is there's a brain drain toward growing marijuana. You know, if someone has a green thumb in an urban area, especially in places like Washington or Oregon where it's now totally legal, why wouldn't you just grow pot?” PeopleBrainArgumentPropertyPotMarijuanaUrbanAffordable Author:Novella Carpenter
“My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park that I see as a model: Dover Street Park in Oakland. They took this park that has swings and playground-type things and turned it into a farm. There's not chickens, just annual vegetables interspersed with fruit trees. And it's super cool because you see people playing with their kids and then they go pick raspberries and some greens for dinner.” PeopleKidsTreeArgumentUrban Author:Novella Carpenter
“The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't. The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, like Iraq and Afghanistan, things don't go as expected.” PeopleChoicesDifficultConflictArgumentHumanitarianZoneAfghanistanGet Involved Author:Michael Hastings
“In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has power, who has a voice, what we should care about. But political novels can be boringly polemical if they end up being too black and white, too one dimensional, like war is bad, killing people is wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarCarePoliticalBlackNovelArgumentKillingBlack And White Author:Micah Perks
“People mistake self-love for thinking they must always like what they see in the mirror - and yes, of course, that is the goal; that all depends on perspective - but my argument is that you can still have self-love while wanting to make progress or improve things. The main issue is that we attach too much to an idea of what our perfect body may be or what self-love should be. But that's the issue. There is no right or wrong. We can love ourselves and feel bloated. We can love ourselves but feel uncomfortable in our skin. We are a work in progress and human and won't always feel amazing.” PeopleThinkingGoalPerfectMistakeProgressPerspectiveArgumentSkinsUncomfortableWork In Progress Author:Danielle Tabor
“Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover an issue you are at least encouraging people to think about all the possibilities and if you're not covering political reform, electoral reform, you can write stories about them that don't say we must do this but just educate people on the fact that there are various advocates who are tugging us in that direction, that can present the arguments of those advocates, and I do think that's an issue we for some reason completely turned away from.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingReasonPoliticalPossibilityArgumentVariousEducate Author:Frank Bruni
“I try not to make political arguments personal. It doesn't help and it switches a lot of people off. The real questions: Will we have peace? Will we have justice? Will we have pensions? Will we have free education? Will we have public services? .... those are the sort of things which interest me. I don't think that having a go at individuals really helps get your point across apart from anything else.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealHelpingPoliticalIndividualInterestJusticeArgumentPublic ServicePension Author:Tony Benn
“I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.” PeopleThinkingBelieveMeanLongImportantRealSometimesHelpingCareArgumentAppreciateAgreeBeliever Author:Jason Kander
“Every worldview has its ambiguities - debatable elements that people simply will not see to eye on. There's nothing wrong with that as long as the disagreement is principled and dignified. I actually think that arguments - as opposed to quarrels - are good things because they're the best way to figure out what's true. Share your reasons, listen carefully to each other, be nice, and may the best idea win.” PeopleThinkingLongReasonEyeWinningNiceShareArgumentGood ThingsBeing NiceAmbiguityWorldviewDisagreement Author:Greg Koukl
“I really think that everything that's known about Hillary has been dissected, rehashed. For some people that is an argument that she would be the better candidate against McCain.” PeopleThinkingArgumentMccain Author:Maria Echaveste
“From my vantage point, when I'm criticized in a way that I can hear what's being said - i.e., the issues - I'm more likely to listen and respond. A lot of the personal email I receive consists of name calling; I'll write back and say: Talk to me like I'm a person and you're a person and tell me where you disagree with me. I can't tell you how that turns people upside down. More often than not they write back with an apology and a reasoned argument.” PeopleWritingArgumentDisagreeApologyUpside DownTalk To MeName Calling Author:Steven Petrow
“The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.” PeopleArgumentConvictionInnocentDeath PenaltyAdvent Author:Gene Weingarten
“There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that the United States is doing it too. It enormously weakens the argument. Back in the early days of the Bush administration, PEN made a decision that we would try and make human rights issues and civil rights issues in this country part of the priority, and not just international issues, which had more or less been the priority up until then.” PeopleTryingCountryDecisionArgumentHuman RightsPrioritiesCivil RightsPens Author:Salman Rushdie
“What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentMusicianMusic IsArgumentWesternRapperClassical MusicRap Music Author:Christian Scott
“I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out. I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with. There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist.” PeopleThinkingFeminismArgumentScaredFeministYoung Women Author:Jessica Valenti
“Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.” PeopleBelieveAcceptingArgumentOrthodoxConsensus Author:Sadakat Kadri
“If you go to the right conservative places you'll find there's a huge argument about this among conservatives, particularly the conservative elites and the conservative intellectuals. There's always an argument among our people over who's the smartest person in the room and they're always trying to outsmart each other with the fanciest smartest most obscure argument. The fact is these arguments are taking place within the conservative movement I think quite a lot.” PeopleThinkingTryingArgumentConservativeObscure Author:Rush Limbaugh