Debate Quotes

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room for debate.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

He who frames the question wins the debate.

American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.