John Sherman Cooper Quotes

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

Disagreement is something normal.

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

On any big issue in government there are always going to be disagreements.

It's tough to get two lawyers to agree on anything.

No one is served by continued uncertainty and fractious debate.

If we can’t even agree on the facts, it will be very difficult for us to lock arms and deal with these problems.

You can never get two members of the family to agree on anything.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

Without agreement you just have people arguing.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what parallel universe does that make you the winner? I am the champion. I’ve been the champion. Anderson’s ribs have the exact same problem that his hands and his feet have, they’re attached to a cowardly person.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

The grammarians are arguing.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.