Debate Quotes

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

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

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.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Let there be no doubt: Democrats are the party with two ideas: borrow and spend. The only vigorous internal debate on the left revolves around two questions: How much and how much more?

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational 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.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

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

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.

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

I created the Huffington Post in the United States of America which is a left of center blog. I created my blogs which are mostly right of center and I believe in open debate in our society.

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.

Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing...

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

Israel's right to exist in peace and security is not in debate.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin.