“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.” WorldImportantWarStatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesCenturyParticularCapitalismExcitingClaimsRelationOriginalsStartingInternationalChinaDebateChineseOur TimeSurprising21st CenturyEmergingPolitical SystemsStarting Point Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."” ThinkingFacesGuyGrowsCasesNewsClaimsDemocraticClintonDemocratDebateTerroristInsanePresidentialCandidatesPairsRoughHostFoxesProfileBiasedFox NewsPresidential CandidateBritsMachismoHumeNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.” NeedsI CanIdeasCountryLeftLosesFailingDangerProduceListeningClaimsDebateAgendasSensibleConventionalSocialistUnemploymentConventional Wisdom Author:Jo Grimond
“Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.” WorldWarStatesWholeBodyLawDifferencesChurchReligiousUnitedHalfUnited StatesTroubleAtheismCitizensEqualEuropeClaimsPositive AtheismDebateInternalsAssociationChaptersStrifeRivalsChurch And StateTheologicalOld World Author:James Bryce
“No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!” MenWantLightRunningJoyLibertyLoversThousandProveClaimsDrivenDebateSheepPopeWant UPeasantsShoutingProve It Author:Morris West
“A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality -- the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers.” MotherIndividualGroupsEssentialsClaimsMotherhoodDebateTreatedAbortionTimetables Book:Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood Source: Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
“Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.” SelfAmericaNamesTermMoralCallingClaimsVictimCampaignsDebatePityRacistAmerican HistoryMulticulturalismDefiningEntitlementSelf PityGrievanceSexistRewritingVictimizationName CallingHomophobesRevisionismRewriting History Author:George Will
“Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.” LooksSecretTeachAuthorityClaimsBlindDebateObedienceVigorousOld And NewBlind Obedience Author:Carl Sagan
“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.” WayFirstsHas BeensMatterScientistClaimsAgreeDebateBrokeRefugeConsensusWalletsScoundrels Author:Michael Crichton
“Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?” ThinkingShouldBelieveMeanDoeIdeasReasonPoliticalBehindsHonestClaimsDebateSurrenderBeing HonestChampionHallsProfessorsScareSuperstitionsToleratePolitical CorrectnessCampusCorrectnessSuppressionFree Thought Author:Charlton Heston
“On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.” PeopleShouldLittlesUseUsedJesusNamesBeliefChristReligiousPowerfulIssuesPositionWeaponsJesus ChristClaimsDebateSupremeCompromiseAlliesBehalfReligious BeliefSupreme BeingPowerful WeaponsNo Compromise Author:Barry Goldwater
“Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?” WantFactsSeemsAudienceMoonClaimsTinyDebateChecksWhy NotSquaresSay AnythingFractions Author:Ted Cruz
“It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."” HelpingUseTermWhiteCasesConscienceClaimsCriticsDebateProtestCivilizedAccurateSoothingDoersEuphemism Author:Steve Kangas
“I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now - It's like a bunch of theologians arguing over how many angels you can stick on the head of a needle. When you've got a side that changes from global warming, global warming, global warming to climate change, which is intuitive - the climate has always been changing since the beginning of time - and then just begins to claim every answer is the correct answer, you often stand back, and I don't care who you are, you have to question as to what the real motive is in this.” ThinkingRealCareCausesSidesAnswersPiecesAngelClaimsWho You AreSticksClimateClimate ChangeDon't CareArguingDebateSillyBunchConfusionI Don't CareMotiveGlobal WarmingTheologianIntuitiveNeedles Author:Joe Bastardi
“Donald Trump claims - he did interview after the debate where he said, well, gosh, you can't find Americans to do these jobs to be waiters or waitresses or bellhops.What ridiculous nonsense. "The New York Times" reported roughly 300 Americans applied for those jobs. He only hired 17. Instead, he brought in foreign workers, because they're captive workers, because you can pay them less because they can't leave.” WellsSaidJobsPayNew YorkTrumpClaimsWorkersDebateRidiculousInterviewsNonsenseNew York TimesCaptivesWaiterWaitress Author:Ted Cruz
“If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.” IfsWantWritingLooksStillsCoursesLanguageSeaPoliticianClaimsDebatePalestinianHamas Author:Judith Butler
“Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been closed and claustrophobic for 35 years under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. I defy anyone who, over the last 35 years, has spent time on the campuses of Notre Dame or Georgetown, or who has read the National Catholic Reporter, or who has gone to a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, to make that claim without experiencing a twinge of conscience that says, "I should wash my mouth out with soap."” ShouldYearsStoriesLastsChurchReligiousLinesGoneConversationMouthsConscienceClaimsCatholicMeetingsDebateReportersPopeConferencesSoapCampusDamesJohn PaulNotre DameJohn Paul IiGeorgetownBenedict Xvi Author:George Weigel
“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.” IssuesApproachClaimsDebateConclusionFirmOur TimeGlobal Warming Author:Pal Brekke