Debate Suppression Quotes

I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.

Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The swirl of their buzzwords—“access,” “stigma,” “progressive,” “diversity,” “crisis,” etc.—shows a discernible pattern. What these innumerable buzzwords have in common is that they either (1) preempt issues rather than debate them, (2) set the anointed and the benighted on different moral and intellectual planes, or (3) evade the issue of personal responsibility.

It's not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that are debating the real issues. It's much better to deflect attention away from issues and get into the story of the day.

We have reached the point where politicians aren’t supposed to be political and the parties aren’t supposed to debate issues.