Debate Quotes

I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

India has always wanted friendly ties with its neighbours, there can be no debate around it. We want to live in harmony and peace.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

I also want to make sure that when we debate these things [hackers attacks], that we actually have the facts that are very clear in front of us to have this debate.

The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.

The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.