Debate Quotes

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

— Deng Xiaoping

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

— Charlie Sheen

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

— Michael Bennet

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture

— John McCain

He who defines the terms, controls the debate.

— Mike Evans

I believe in reasoned debate.

— Lorne Greene

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

— James Stuart Stewart

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

— Donald Trump

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

— Monica Crowley

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

— Rabindranath Tagore

I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.

— Tim Finchem

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

— Paul Wolfowitz

False equivalency is the lifeblood of American public debate.

— Jason Whitlock

'Taste Buds' is a food debate show and 'Hey Babe!' is just kind of anything and everything.

— Sal Vulcano

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

— Lee Smolin

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

— John King

The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this…

— Greg Gutfeld

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

— Sam Brownback

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news…

— Helen Suzman

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

— Ayn Rand

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife…

— Georges Duhamel

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

— Fabrizio Moreira

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him…

— Gordon S. Wood

MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based…

— Barry Gardiner

So, we're well aware of the questions that our audience is inevitably going to ask. We're well aware of how carefully they…

— Jeff Pinkner

There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people…

— John Gimlette

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge…

— Oliver Stone

Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey…

— Chris Hedges

Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be…

— Barack Obama

I'm very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction - that's…

— Ian Gillan

People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have…

— Julian Baggini

We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.…

— Robert P. George

... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and…

— Walter E. Williams

“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted…

— Christopher Hitchens

We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood,…

— Chrissy Teigen

We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get…

— Barack Obama