Debate Quotes

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

There's always merit to having a debate.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

Now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

I cannot believe that [Donald Trump] is actually in the debates.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

How can you have a reasonable debate with people who are constantly changing the panic? They are moving the panic to a greater wave of hysteria?

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.

There's a debate among Democrats about how they should approach this new [Donald's Trump] administration.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.