Best 472 quotes in «debate quotes» category

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's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare 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 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.

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

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

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

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

It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.

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

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!

I was really happy in the Globe and - in the Globe and Mail debate, which was on the economy, that there were questions about infrastructure, about immigration, about housing. These things have often been seen as municipal issues, but they truly are pan-Canadian issues. Now, I'm not saying I'm happy with all the answers, but I'm happy that at least we're talking about them.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

Jeb Bush says he`s not a good - why would he admit that? I watched him. I`m not an entertainer. He goes, I`m not a good talker. I don`t speak well. I don`t debate well. I don`t do anything well. But you should vote for me. That`s Jeb Bush.

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing...

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

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

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.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

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

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

Obviously, I'm a fan of satire. I'd debate anyone, but it would have to be the actual person. That would be my only hesitation about debating Stephen Colbert. If he were playing a character, it wouldn't really work.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Necessity does not submit to debate.

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

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

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

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.