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“Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.”

Should Enough Politics Wish Goal Term Results Principles Ideals Ultimate Debate Pursue Thanks Granted Opponents Destination Spells Revealing Defining Predictable Negligence

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.”

Knows Men Able Used Politics Answers Limits Bird Debate Used To Be Senate Nodding

Book:The Will Rogers scrapbook

Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook

“Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.”

Matter America Politics Language Achieve Conversation Harder Debate Outcomes Telling The Truth Drowning Orwellian Already Won

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.”

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Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy

Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy

“There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.”

Needs Reality Science Politics Nature Community Leadership Justice Policy Happenings Ethics Unity Congress Deny Debate

Author:Bill Nye

“The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.”

“Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.”

Political Courses Politics Ability Heard Debate Dependent Compass Controversy

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.”

Government Political Politics Party Principles Exercise Benefits Constitution Debate

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.”

Way Soul Political Politics Democracy Debate Deliberation

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?”

Ifs War Politics Imagine Generations Tragedy Sentences Debate Avoided Website

Author:Eugene Mirman

“You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.”

Littles Political Politics Vote Debate

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson