Few people doubt that the events of the last year have coarsened the national political discourse.

Gee, it's almost as if you think that a few words from me drive the entire national discourse on the issue.

At the other end is the "vocabulary of our national discourse."

Let us have a serious national discourse on it.

I tried hard to break through all the either/or debates that dominated national public discourse.

Especially troubling was his call on the American people "to repair the fabric of our national discourse."

For too long, we have recused ourselves from the national discourse on race relations and equal opportunity.

At least fifteen other newspapers nationwide picked up the coverage, which led to national discourse on the activities of the group.

Many of these people didn't vote in 2000 because they weren't old enough or, worse, were disenchanted with the national political discourse.

They were increasingly marginalized, however, and by 1917 had been excluded almost entirely from national discourse on the subject.