Debate Quotes

During the debate, Bush was asked by a lady to name three mistakes he's made. And Bush responded, this debate, the last debate and the next debate.

In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.

After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

Donald Trump doesn't like to debate and knows in his heart of hearts he isn't great at it.

What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

Earlier tonight the second Republican debate took place here in California. With 10 men and only one woman, everyone thought they were watching 'The Bachelorette.'

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate gets a little different.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger got into a huge debate with Arianna Huffington about immigration - going back and forth - finally immigration came in and hauled them both away.

During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!

God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.

People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.

There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in.

I thought it was very unfair. I thought what happened to Mitt Romney was very unfair in the third debate. So, I'd want to be. I'd want to have somebody that I think could be fair.

The Clinton machine is so closely and irrevocably tied to the media organizations that she is given the questions and answers in advance of her debate performance with Bernie Sanders.

The WikiLeaks documents show how the media conspires and collaborates with the Clinton campaign including giving the questions and answers to Hillary Clinton before the debate.

There is only one core issue in the immigration debate, and that issue is the well being of the American people.

[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties.

There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.