Debate Lover Prints

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

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

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."

'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."

The Truth

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

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

"I welcome the discussion."

For Sale

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

Suffrage - Franchise for Females

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

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!'

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

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

'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.'

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

Protesters with Different Goals

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

"The subject of tonight's discussion is: why are there no women on this panel?"

"Politics is the art of nothing is possible."

'I'm a liberal at heart...but my wallet is quite a conservative.'

The future Supreme Court - Dominated by republcns and George W Bush.