Best 472 quotes in «debate quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

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

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

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

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

The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

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.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

Trump is loose and obvious with his facial expressions. You could watch Donald Trump in a debate and not hear any of the words and you'll still get a sense for when he's pleased, when he's angry and when he's not.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

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

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

We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

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.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

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

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.

We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.