When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, economic science, social science — says, ‘The debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things. It’s that the debate is raging and he’s losing it.

The truth has become an insult.

He who speaks first, loses.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

The first one who uses "but", has lost the argument.

Competition is for losers.

Let me put on record here that in my 9 years of close involvement in this debate, I have seen time and again that it is the invasionist school which, when it did not refuse the debate, has spoiled the debate by replacing argument with mud-slinging.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

I assume people with bad arguments will just lose them.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

A man who attempts to debate when he cannot listen must make a wretched display of impotence.

By the time someone else tells you their winning strategy, it’s too late.