Debate Quotes · Page 13

Your answer holds no whatsoever colour in this painting

— Julia Nkandi

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

— Jessica Savitch

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

— Pitbull

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

— Margaret Hoover

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles.”

— Bauvard

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

— Pierre Poilievre

After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

— Edward R Murrow

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not…

— Albert Schweitzer

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has…

— Reggie White

My domination is getting so strong that it's starting to become much clearer now who's the best featherweight, but I've been raising…

— Patricio Freire

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides…

— Germaine Greer

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is…

— Eric Liu

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

— John F. Kennedy

I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.

— Zoe Bell

Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion…

— Mark Hunt

I've heard - when I first started, people were saying, "You know if it ends up being Trump against [Hillary] Clinton, it's…

— Donald Trump

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than…

— H. W. Brands

By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens…

— Laura Mulvey

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them.…

— Martin O'Malley

Early on in the marriage-equality debate in this country, I and a lot of people involved with 'Wicked' did some benefits, concerts,…

— Stephen Schwartz

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found…

— John Gibbons

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the…

— Mario Bunge

You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got…

— Gary Lineker

We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate:…

— Mark Powell

“Just because they write something In this font And break apart their lines To rhyme To dramatize To imitate Doesn’t make what…

— Karl Kristian Flores

One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they…

— Tim Crane

ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you…

— Emily Giffin

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more…

— Walter Lippmann

Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves,…

— Paula Gunn Allen

I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show…

— Judith Butler

The idea that the United States of American might shut down its government over abortion and funding to an organization that is…

— Katty Kay

Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.

— Jack Schlossberg

“The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.”

— Thomas Newkirk

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

— Walter Lippmann

Donald Trump doesn't like to debate and knows in his heart of hearts he isn't great at it.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

— Nancy Gibbs

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I didn't finish high school but I feel like if I was in college I could debate with anybody.

— Riff Raff

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

— Thomas Hardy