Best 472 quotes in «debate quotes» category

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

I don't know Condoleezza Rice personally. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and I'm sure she plays the piano well. But she was a very bad National Security Adviser. The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching

I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

I'd want to have a fair moderator. I thought that Mitt Romney was treated very unfairly in the third debate [in 2012].

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

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.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

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

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

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.

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

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'm a talker. I love a good debate.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.