James Mercer Quotes

We talk, as any brothers, or as most brothers do, particularly when you are involved in politics.

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time.

In politics, as in every other department of life, the clashing of thought is sometimes a proof of disease, but always a promise of reform.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

Debate is the death of conversation.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

We're not in agreement on all topics. I had a conversation with Mr. [Donald] Trump that was open and constructive.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nicholas Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.