Debate Quotes

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this huge voting bloc that everybody says is yours

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

You can't have a motion without a debate.

Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.

Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

I like Macron a lot and I very much welcome him - particularly the fact that he made Europe one of the main topics of the election debate.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

I think there are a lot of people who feel very passionate about needing to have an open debate. And I think it's a real sign of leadership that the press needs to be actually standing up for that.

Right now we have a bipartisan debate commission, when most Americans are not members of the bipartisan establishment.

Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions.