Debate Lover Mugs

"Look, maybe you're right, but for the sake of argument let's assume you're wrong and drop it."

A Born Politician

"Can we, just for a moment, Your Honor, ignore the facts?"

The Election of 1933

"The world would be a better place if everyone just thought the way I do."

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

'In tonight's debate, Ms. Johnson will argue the merits of accrual-based accounting, while Mr. Wilcox will defend the 'Don't Be Accrual' method!'

While experts remain at odds over the issue of when life begins, most agree it's sometime after work.

'I hope we're not going to have the same old argument.'

"I've never met anyone like you. You're just wrong about everything."

While experts remain at odds over the issue of when life begins, most agree it's sometime after work.

'Europe a fortress? What are you talking about?! Can't you see - the door's wide open!'

"That's a very good question, which is why we're going to move on to the next question."

'And tonight our pundits will be debating the issue, 'do extra terrestrials exist?'

"You know, the idea of taxation with representation doesn't appeal to me very much, either."

The Truth

'...First he wants some independence, then he wants to separate...and then he says NO I want to stay together!'

Occasionally, when logic and rational inferences based on experience were not enough, Plato and Aristotle would resort to settling their discourse by other means.

"Poll numbers remained unchanged today, as people used recent events to reinforce whatever views they already had."

"I welcome the discussion."

For Sale

"Well, in my opinion it's 265! Are you telling me I don't have a right to my opinion?"

"That's an excellent prescreened question, but before I give you my stock answer I'd like to try to disarm everyone with a carefully rehearsed joke."

'That concludes my prepared remarks. I will now skillfully evade questions from the audience.'

'Give me you smart, your rich, your educated elite yearning to innovate, the top graduates of your universities. Send these, the landed gentry by jet-plane to me, I lift my cell beside passport counter.'

'The United States of America, I hear you knocking but you can't come in'

'Mr. Churchill, you are drunk !' 'Yes Madam and you are ugly but tomorrow I shall be sober.'

How Governments (Don't) work...

'Gosh, I love government, Ed. Just when you begin to lose faith in the system, along comes a fresh crop of idealistic young lawmakers with an invigorating brand of gridlock all their own!'

'Come now, Sir. You must be pro-something.'

'With these video-phones, there's just too much documentation on all my promises.'

VOTE, 'Yes, I said '#$%!%', but it was taken out of context!'

Protesters with Different Goals

Suffrage - Franchise for Females

Ciao Britain!