Argued Quotations

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.

A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.

The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks.

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.

We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,

What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel.

When I got the call about the accident, I thought it was a joke, ... I argued with the paramedic who called. These things don't happen at 9:20 in the morning.

Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

Mrs. King argued that our nation would not fulfill its promise unless all Americans, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, were afforded equal treatment under the law.

One month's data do not necessarily indicate the start of a trend, but round one goes to those of us who have argued that the fundamentals do not support rapid growth in consumption this year.

New Look has gone well since going private, although it could be argued that perhaps it is doing rather too much at once.

Philip insisted it would be wrong for him to break down and be so emotional. But, of course, when we rolled camera, he proceeded to do exactly what he'd argued against. It's what makes his performance feel so real. When he entered a scene, he was no longer thinking like an actor. He was thinking like Truman Capote would think.

If they're as committed to mine safety as they say they are, then they need to incorporate these things into their bill. These are things that shouldn't be argued over.

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise. If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.

I have argued for quite a long time that we should define humanitarian assistance in a broad enough manner to allow for assistance and repairs to electricity and heating systems and water for people through the winter, ... Otherwise we will have another humanitarian crisis on our hands.

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

I find it amazing to watch the Democrats who have consistently argued that the Bush administration holds a simplistic understanding of the world, and treats all Muslims as equals, to take this position.

I can't say that it's inconceivable that a situation could arise where there would be... ... You haven't argued that.

Galbraith argued that the truly important economic issues must be evaluated through the lens of economics, politics, sociology, law, ideology and history simultaneously, and that economic analysis and prescription must always keep front and centre both the factors of power and the narratives that societies use to tell their economic stories.

We can move music to a place that it should be. Some have argued that the music business should be further along than the film industry, which is not an indigenous industry (to Louisiana).

He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.

Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

I think traffic safety advocates have successfully argued against those objections.

Japan needs a weak yen. We have argued that case for months, and finally it is proving of merit.

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. ""That was fun,"" I said. ""You bet it was,"" said Nick. ""Let's climb higher."" ""No,"" I said. ""I think we should be heading back now."" ""We have time,"" Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.

Some have argued we should wait, and that's an option. In my view, it's the riskiest of all options, because the longer we wait, the stronger and bolder Saddam Hussein will become.

Some have argued the fall in the Australian dollar at a time when commodity prices are still strong is telling us global growth is about to collapse. However, there are few indicators of any impending collapse in global growth or commodity prices. In fact, global growth seems to be strengthening thanks to stronger growth in Europe and Japan.

Some influential voices of the time argued that by accepting higher inflation, policy-makers could bring about a permanently lower rate of unemployment.

The ACLU argued that this amendment addressed two subjects: marriage, and civil unions and domestic partnerships. They said people would be in favor of voting for marriage, but may not be in favor of banning civil unions. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and said that this amendment is about the singular purpose of marriage and maintaining and preserving the protections and obligations of marriage.

Whirlpool has argued the merger should receive regulatory approval due to the global nature of the laundry market; however, with only two other domestic top-load washer manufacturers, we believe this lacks credibility.

We never argued one time it's just one of those games. . . . We didn't play well.

We haven't argued about much. We found we have a fair amount of common ground.

The people are questioning if the DPJ is really serious about taking the helm of government. (I'll) first gather the party's opinions together and let important issues be argued out in the Diet. That's my fighting stance.

We are deeply disappointed in the arbitrator's ruling on New York City Transit's expansion of one-person train operation to the L line on nights and weekends. Although the union argued that the program was unsafe, the arbitrator based the decision on an overly technical reading of a 1994 contract, not safety. We will be reviewing our options over the next few days.

We have consistently argued that there is little likelihood of a rate move over the next 12 months,

We often argued but always understood each other,

While some have argued that the Second Amendment guarantees only a 'collective' right of the states to maintain militias, I believe the amendment's plain meaning and original intent prove otherwise.

While no member state has got everything it argued for, the text before you is balanced, strong and workable. I also hope that, after reviewing the text as a whole and after assessing the larger issues at stake, you will be ready to move to a decision on this draft resolution as soon as possible, preferably before the end of next week.

We argued to the judge that miracles like this are wonderful, but they do come with a price.

We argued that 18 is the natural age. It's an age that's reflected almost universally whenever legislatures have to find a dividing line between adolescence and adulthood, for purposes of driving, and signing contracts and entering marriage agreements and things like that.

We argued for weeks whether the rug should be square or round.

While it remains manageable, it can be argued that it is the rate at which debt levels are growing that may cause no further stimulus from the central bank.

Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

You are old,"" said the youth, ""and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? ""In my youth,"" said his father, ""I took to the law, And argued e

We had argued that those issues did not warrant litigation, but the board disagreed. We are pleased that the schedule has been set and the process is moving forward. We're preparing our case on the merits.

This was his second home. His wife might have argued that this was his first home.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

Everything we've argued for is in those six counties.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

Essentially, what they argued is that Cisco has grown through acquisitions, and people are valuing it at a very high price because of its growth.

I stayed away from it for years, thinking that there were many, many better guitar players than I and that I should stick to what I do best, the writing and singing, ... Rick didn't want to budge, and we argued about it almost every day in the studio. I played on every track, which means I lost every battle.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

The statistics can't be argued with; the statistics are clear.

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.

I've argued cases in the Supreme Court and they'll ask you a question for a minute and a half and you'll think it's a day long. So it's tough.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

Schwarzenegger's critics last year argued that voters didn't care about what he was trying to fix. You can't say that this year.

Some people had earlier argued that it took, 10, 20, 30 million years before you got enough heat production to limit that strength.

The university has seen significant success outside of basketball in recent years, and no one has argued that basketball hasn't had an impact on that, ... It makes the decision to reward someone -- like Mark -- who has brought tremendous success to the university a no-brainer.

They are friends of mine. I have argued with them. I think they really have slowed this process down, and they brought fair reform of the tax system to a standstill,

There was a time when Mick and I could have argued forever over the most mundane things. The color of the album cover could turn into a life-and-death debate. I used to think he was getting too big for his boots, and he probably thought I was a cantankerous sod.

It's an opportunity to have a different approach of collegiality, ... I argued a case in the Supreme Court a few years back and Chief Justice Rehnquist ran a stopwatch, interrupted in mid-sentence. The word is he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if.'

The next-door neighbors have said that they argued a little bit -- that they could hear them arguing through the house.

They argued for two tracks. On one hand you put pressure, on the other hand show a way out of this.

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

I never found the questions easy to answer, and the manner in which the country argued with itself seemed wholly inadequate to the scale of what we were about to get into. I first went to Iraq, and then kept going back, because I wanted to see past the abstractions to what the war meant in people's lives.

I know I had a guy who argued my case extremely well. But I also had to relegate myself to having to wait. I had to wait to get to a major college, and I had to wait to get to the NFL.

In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

In fact, it could logically be argued that the man best qualified to review a detective story is an established detective-story writer.

He told me he was plenty willing to go back out there, to eat up some innings to help the bullpen. But I wouldn't call it an argument. We've run into situations like this before and he's argued a lot more vehemently.

Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?

Gates argued that Sony's new high-definition DVD standard, called Blu-ray, needed to be changed so it would work smoothly with personal computers running on Microsoft's Windows operating system. Stringer and two lieutenants defended the technology, insisting Blu-ray would work fine in PCs, ... Yet Gates's ire only grew. 'There must be something much deeper going on,' Stringer said later, according to another person who heard the comment.

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

This has to be the most prejudicial piece of evidence I've argued in a courtroom. It's essentially telling the jury the man is convicted of murder, so it's no need to try this case.

The industry has argued for years that consumers don't care about fuel economy. I think they are finding themselves quite surprised by the level of public concern.

The Forest Service has argued that because the project was approved before it being named a monument, they said they could still do this years later, but the judge said they could not.

All of that argued against leaping into a large and potentially risky market. It needs to stand on its own two feet economically.

All the matters you raise you've argued before and we have ruled upon (them). There is no reason for them to raised again in these proceedings. We will be hearing the rest of your arguments and submissions tomorrow morning.

The lecture was packed, ... The occasion really argued for a bigger space.

Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi