Debate Quotes · Page 13

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

— Diane Abbott

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

— Ron Fournier

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

— Hubert H. Humphrey

You know you win an argument, when the person responds with whatever.

— Anonymous

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

— Lou Reed

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

— Bernie Sanders

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

— David Hockney

“Debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight')”

— Douglas F. Jack

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.

— Bill Maher

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

— Neil Postman

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of…

— Michael Gove

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral…

— Blase J. Cupich

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

— Craig Ferguson

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and…

— Ed Miliband

I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being…

— Andrew Scheer

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need…

— Barack Obama

Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement…

— Charles B. Rangel

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how…

— Edward Snowden

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I…

— John Hodgman

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is…

— Campbell McGrath

I believe that the debate of 'Who should tell indigenous stories?' is very important. It's something that should be talked about. I'm…

— Niki Caro

I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now…

— Joe Bastardi

I belong to a generation that had so many choices available. In 1970, when [former premier Robert] Bourassa launched the James Bay…

— Philippe Couillard

Giving people like me a green card, a passport, and a driver's license? That's not going to be the end of the…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American…

— Ted Cruz

At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions,…

— Barney Frank

I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We…

— Rob Huebel

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

— Idris Elba

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

Ideas must always be subjected to debate and challenge.

— Wes Streeting

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

— Donald Trump

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

— Phil Donahue

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

— Christopher Lasch

Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

— Lyndon B. Johnson