When you’re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you’ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you’re doing is fair and seen to be fair. – David Cameron
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don’t-want-to-die argument. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. – David Herbert Donald
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. – Newt Gingrich
It’s all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we’ve never had an argument. – Dave Edmunds
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple’s development must come from within. – Douglas Rushkoff
There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact. – Edmund Morgan
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. – Peter Singer
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. – David Baltimore
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it’s often a very good way of clarifying issues. – Evan Davis
One thing about liberals: It doesn’t even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn’t dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint. – Monica Crowley
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. – Eric Alterman
What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They’re not your blood. They’re not your mind. You get in an argument. – Dick Dale
I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do ‘Kitty’ and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just ‘Kitty’ books. – Carrie Vaughn
Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it. – David Pratt
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. – Cullen Hightower
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us – they are not ‘a special case,’ and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for ‘exceptionalism’ – and with it the right to ‘self-regulation.’ – David Puttnam
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. – David F. Houston
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. – E. P. Thompson
First of all, you can make the argument that there’s no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. – David McCullough