B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1- 1:15pm
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
"Belief is the death of intelligence." - Robert Anton Wilson
"Food is memories." - Jose Andres
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - President Lincoln
"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time." - Lisa Bonet
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." - General Norman Schwarzkopf
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them." - President Vladimir Putin
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." - Senator Jeannette Rankin
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?" - Philip Sidney
"The first point of contact for radicalization is almost always a personal one." - Maajid Nawaz
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Emperor Marcus Aurelius
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus
"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons." - Richard Wright
Speaker 6
Speaker 6
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." - Julia Child
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure." - Thomas Edison
"Many of us are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars." - Hill Harper
Speaker 7
Speaker 7
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith." - Paul Tillich
"Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to." - Emperor Marcus Aurelius
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." - General Robert E. Lee
Round 2 - 2:30pm
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"More law, less justice." - Cicero
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." - Voltaire
"Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." - Saint Augustine
"You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot." - Shakuntala Devi
"The time is always right to do the right thing." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all." - Dan Rather
"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." - Julius Caesar
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is no greater tyranny that that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." - Montesquieu
Speaker 6
Speaker 6
"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." - Javier Bardem
"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." - Matsuo Basho
"Change is the law of life." - President John F. Kennedy
Speaker 7
Speaker 7
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Ben Franklin
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
"It is better to travel well than to arrive." – Buddha
Final Rounds - 5:30pm
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable." - Joe Biden
"It's not the job of the US military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias." - Ted Cruz
"You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior." - Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
"It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people." - J.D. Vance
"As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are." - Elissa Slotkin
"I think difference of opinion is a good thing." - Jon Tester
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
"Everything in life is luck." - Donald Trump
"I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything." - Kamala Harris
"I think that integrity is something that is important to voters." - Tammy Baldwin
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
"Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people." - Joe Biden
"Leading from behind doesn't work." - Ted Cruz
"The truth is that nobody agrees with anybody 100% of the time." - Jon Tester
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time that America was run like a business." - Donald Trump
"The American Dream belongs to all of us." - Kamala Harris
"I don't believe that all Republicans are bad." - Elissa Slotkin
Speaker 6
Speaker 6
"I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas." - J.D. Vance
"I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual." - Gavin Newsom
"It is hard to look away when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people." - Tammy Baldwin
Speaker 7
Speaker 7
"Life is a matter of really tough choices." - Joe Biden
"I think all politicians have gotten out of touch." - Jon Tester
"We don't have to let extremists define us." - Kamala Harris