Debates, I hate.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

— George H. W. Bush

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

— Jill Lepore

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

— Eugene Fama

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

— Geraldine Ferraro

I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them…

— Richard Dawkins

“Almost all political debates by politicians are no more than mutual leg pulling.”

— Ravi Ranjan Goswami

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights…

— Elliott Abrams

I oversee debates, premises, questions. And that's my role.

— Lindsay Hoyle

Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over…

— Mark McKinnon

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

— Mark McKinnon

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions…

— Julius Genachowski

I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want…

— H. L. Mencken

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell…

— Vivek Wadhwa

In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have…

— Ralph Nader

“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana