Ann Coulter Quotes

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self- defense.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid—in which case all comment is superfluous—or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

I embark upon discussion and argument with great ease and liberty

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

I was on the debate team.

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Italians think with their heads.

But even the people who don't like my opinions must admit that I always have a reason behind what I say.

By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game.

Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

I remember thinking when I was in college that a lot of these known Chomsky-like, verbose, high-lefty thinkers made absolutely no sense, but I thought that was my problem.

I like reading things where someone's looked at what I do with some honesty, and maybe been challenged by it, and they have something to say that shows they've thought about it, even if they don't necessarily like it.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

I don't want any of my sisters to be like Tomi Lahren. You all are smarter, sharper, more articulate, brilliant, so why would I want y'all to be like her?

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.