Best 472 quotes in «debate quotes» category

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

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 heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

In a fundamental sense, this debate about NAFTA is a debate about whether we will embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow, or try to resist these changes, hoping we can preserve the economic structures of yesterday.

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.

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.

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.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in Russia who believed in shock therapy were Bolsheviks a few people at the top that rammed it down everybody's throat. They viewed the democratic process as a real impediment to reform.

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.

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

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy.

I signed the pledge. I have been very good. I have been very straight and honest and honorable. And they're not treating me well.I have won every debate according to every poll, every single online poll after the debate. But way they stack the audiences, the way they talk, they have this lightweight Senator Marco Rubio saying terrible things, just personal, terrible things.

In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in their approach and, a lot of times, that can lead to potential conflict, and then a debate in figuring out who and what is the right way to do it.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

I really don't have time at the moment for coalition debates. The voters will decide what the next parliament will look like. Those who wish to form a coalition with The Social Democrats can take a look at our platform and then they are more than welcome to talk to us.

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

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.

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

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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.

It is a time when Irish women can link - as they are linking - through networks. They can do this through having an outward-looking attitude to what's happening to women in other countries, and by being affected by a broader debate.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.