George Schultz Quotes

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

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.

… new truths are often struck out by the collision of parties, in the eagerness of controversy, which otherwise would have lain hid, The divine disapprobation of a form of government by kings, I take to be one of this sort of truths.

Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.

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.

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

Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected.

I would never say don't have an argument.

Arguing is fun when you think you have all the answers.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

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

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?