James G. Stavridis Quotes

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

Liberalism is: To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly

If you've really got a problem with me, and you came and told me you had a problem with me, I'd be interested to listen to you. But if you're just some loser that sits there and hammers away on some blog form or whatever, I don't have time for that. Why even worry about it?

A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.

There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.

No one has debates on Twitter.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.

There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

I have no problem with trolls or negative comments.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

You can do TV and radio without the personal insults.

It's social media. You can't be thin-skinned.

I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.

People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.

Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

Progressive culture’s substitution of nastiness for persuasion and argument has robbed America of the incisive commentary of which intelligent progressives would otherwise be capable. Progressives got addicted to the power of cancel culture — their seemingly invincible H-bomb — and when it stopped working they just didn’t know what else to do, because they had forgotten everything they used to do in the time before Twitter.

When you criticize grown men, it's a lot easier. They make millions of dollars. They should be able to handle it, especially if you do it in a truthful manner... I'm sure it stings, but my whole objective is to be honest.

If you've spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

I don't need to be on any micro-blogging site, because people don't think about what they say there. At times, people abuse, and it is too harsh for me to handle.