Let's have a common-sense debate about all this.
I wish you luck, Mr. President, with your address, and with efforts to bring common sense to the debate over gun control.
At the risk of being the skunk at the garden party, Mr. Foley said he was trying to inject some badly needed common sense in the debate.
Yes, we require the latest technologies for emergency and security purposes, but please, let us have some common sense in the debate.
Or was he injecting common sense into a debate that has been distorted since the Gulf war by an exaggerated faith in high-tech weaponry and the promise of swift, almost risk-free victory?
I'd like to say that my common sense won that debate.
No matter what your views on the meaning and import of the second amendment, we must, at the very least, inject some common sense into the debate and answer basic questions: Do civilians need these types of weapons?
For the first time since then, a Democrat is willing to risk the "soft on crime" label Republicans have used so effectively over the past three decades, to interject some common sense into the debate.
But he seemed to have no trouble holding his own in discussions with Summers and Bernanke, sometimes punctuating his remarks with profanity, and thereby injecting some blunt common sense into the debates.
Even worse, they are fighting common sense reforms being debated in the Senate that would end the insider games that put millions of Americans out of work, stole billions from our retirement plans, and left states and cities with huge amounts of unsustainable debt.
At last, some common sense in the housing debate.
