Brian Lamb Quotes

We should not live in fear, we should all enjoy being able to express our views freely and openly, challenge each other on issues.

I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.

Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Brown’s core value of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas is bedrock to our capacity to fulfill our mission as a university. This value applies not only when ideas are agreeable and aligned with our own. Protecting the right to free expression and promoting open discourse is even more essential when ideas are divergent, abhorrent or even hurtful.

Nations should live in an atmosphere of self-criticism because it is healthy, but always with one heart and one mind.

Men must also be allowed the publication of their opinions, if this be done with decency and seriousness, for the learned can have no right to say that they are in possession of the truth, still less can the unlearned, unless every grave man can offer his opinions, be they what they may…

Somewhere in this we got into impugning people's character and motives if we didn't like their ideas. We gotta get back to just debating ideas.

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism.

Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me.