Debate Quotes · Page 2

A debate about candy bars can get heated.

— Matt Duffer

Debate is so much better than denial.

— Julie Walters

One can always debate questions back and forth.

— Robert Bourassa

“There is nothing sexier than sword fight.”

— Stana Katic

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

— Geraldine Ferraro

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death

— Donald Soper, Baron Soper

I wouldn't want to debate me every day.

— Skip Bayless

Im gonna master debate all over your face

— Jack Sadler

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

— Anonymous

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

— Yitzhak Rabin

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

— Ibrahim Babangida

“Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.”

— Steve Berry

“The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!”

— Ray S. Jones

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

— Bill O'Reilly

The electorate is starved for honest debate and for the good governance that follows from it.

— Bret Weinstein

I love politics. If you're not involved, part of the debate, you can't influence anything.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

At any debate, you want viewers to have learned something they didn't know before - whether it's about the candidates' temperament, policies,…

— Hallie Jackson

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree,…

— Mark Shields

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

— Kenneth Cole

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we…

— Nelson Mandela

I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid,…

— Mindy Kaling

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think…

— Ann Coulter

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you…

— Frank Lampard

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most…

— Samuel Alito

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality…

— Benjamin Wittes

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants…

— Dan Rather

... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a…

— Noam Chomsky

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade…

— Donald Evans

I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's…

— Rand Paul

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated…

— Michael Sandel

I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes…

— Gordon Brown

I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to…

— Wayne McGregor

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.…

— Noam Chomsky

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Look at me, the Front National got many more votes than the Alternative for Germany. Marine Le Pen ended up with 34…

— Emmanuel Macron

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I…

— Claude Shannon

We'll have a national dispute - debate about it, and the goal should be to bring in - to help respectfully appeal…

— Jeff Sessions

Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were…

— Tim Crane

I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows…

— Jeremy Irons

Donald Trump can't even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When…

— Hillary Clinton