Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn’t have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress. – Rachel Maddow
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us. – Sam Harris
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own? – Robert Walpole
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don’t necessarily offer safety and diversification. – Ron Chernow
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, ‘Who do you think you are?’ – Ray Combs
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform. – Pete Gallego
After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again. – Ric Keller
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people – to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed. – Sebastian Faulks
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing ‘Fair Use’ and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is. – Rachel Sklar
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Richard Whately
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. – Ray Stannard Baker
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. – Richard Dawkins
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. – William Wycherley
I’m a politician. I’m not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. – Tony Abbott
I’m not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian – I’m just not interested in that argument. – T Bone Burnett
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause. – Zadie Smith
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. – Tom Allen
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster’s favor is crudely partisan: ‘Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we’ll want to block the other side’s extremist agenda.’ – Timothy Noah
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. – Swami Sivananda
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up. – Theodore Dalrymple
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument. – Sholom Aleichem