Best 472 quotes in «debate quotes» category

Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)

So, we're well aware of the questions that our audience is inevitably going to ask. We're well aware of how carefully they watch the show and hold us to continuity. We're certainly aware of the debates that are going to occur.

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

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.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

Ted Cruz is trying to have a one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

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

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.

The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to be able to deliver the goods of superior portfolio-selection performance. Any jury that reviews the evidence, and there is a great deal of relevant evidence, must at least come out with the Scottish verdict: Superior investment performance is unproved.

The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in dimension and in number of component units. [Stating his conviction on the nature of nebulae during the Shapley-Curtis debate on 26 Apr 1920 to the National Academy of Sciences.]

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.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.

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

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

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

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.

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

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.

There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

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

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

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

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

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

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

There's always merit to having a debate.

There's a whole lot of potential here [in vice-president candidates debates]. But it's not going to be a substitute for [Donald] Trump picking up the pace, the slack himself. It's not going to be a substitute for that.

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.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

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

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.

There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation of science has eroded to a point where it has removed science from public debate and public decision making. Whether the public has come to regard evidence as optional.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

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

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.