Best 472 quotes in «debate quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate.  In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

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.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

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

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

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

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

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

When anarchists are having a debate, they're having a debate about tactics, 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?' The question isn't 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?', the primary question is how do you build confidence among the masses of people who experience hierarchies, who experience exploitation, who experience oppression.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.