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I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

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 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 is, I think, good evidence of life after death

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Necessity does not submit to debate.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.