We look forward to having a debate about past experience and ideas for the future.

We look forward to a substantive debate about our past experiences and a vision for the future.

Lynn Swann doesn't have any experience and he doesn't have any policy proposals for the future, so he's left with attacks.

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

I think good debate ultimately makes for better ideas. And the fact that he's [Howard Dean] a little spirited in his debate, some people see that as an advantage on the Republican side. Some see it as a disadvantage. The bottom line is, more involvement is a good thing.

When it came to demography, the German debate oriented itself very much on the past. And our Nazi past had loaded the topic with terms like race research, race ideology and that's why there was a great reluctance to even deal with the issue after World War II.