I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the…

— Hans Arp

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president…

— Rob Portman

If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I'm debating is the person that is writing…

— Josh Earnest

When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

— Monica Crowley

Don't tell me you'll still be in power by then without free elections! Replyting to Nikita Khrushchev's invitation to attend his 90th birthday celebrations…

— Richard Nixon

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

— Karamo Brown

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert I”

— Justin Brierley

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for…

— Annie Besant

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider…

— Winston Churchill

“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.”

— Bryant McGill

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

— Jennifer Granholm

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

— Rick Wagoner

Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off - like…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

— Seneca the Younger

I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost…

— Jovan Adepo