Debate Quotes · Page 7

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

— Greg Gutfeld

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

— Gail Honeyman

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

— Errol Morris

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

— Matthew Desmond

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

— Pitbull

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

— Jessica Savitch

Your answer holds no whatsoever colour in this painting

— Julia Nkandi

My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to…

— Rebecca Traister

I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of…

— Emily Maitlis

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of…

— Hillary Clinton

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

— Marco Rubio

Well I started out as a dancer, so I was used to this performing - performance arts. Started out getting used to…

— Margaret Brennan

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be…

— Hillary Clinton

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

— Jonathan Swift

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

— Sam Brownback

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates.…

— Bill Ayers

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate…

— Anonymous

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is…

— Leah Hager Cohen

In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this…

— Phyllida Lloyd

Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences…

— Miriam Toews

I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: 'I might need to build some energy in…

— Fiona Bruce

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.…

— Colin Robinson

Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The…

— Hugh Ross

“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was…

— Christopher Hitchens

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I think now it's a very odd time in politics. It should be mostly about good governing. We need a government, not…

— Daphne Guinness

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only…

— Thomas Friedman

I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do these…

— Bonnie Raitt

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare…

— Charlton Heston

Earmarks are counterproductive tools for entrenched politicians to shut down debate and buy votes.

— Lauren Boebert

“Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.”

— Amit Kalantri

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

— Bill Delahunt

Tolerance for difference and for robust debate is often more appropriate than restricting freedom.

— Suella Braverman

“I don't debate where there is no debate. I'm smart. You're stupid. Debate over.”

— J'son M. Lee

Never telling lies, helps you never to believe them.

— Sigz

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

— Pat Toomey

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

— Richard Dreyfuss