Debate Quotes

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

You can only have one aim per debate.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has become an absolute monster.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.

Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.