It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If anonymous [Donald] Trump campaign sources are to be believed, they're pretty concerned he's going to blow the big debate Monday night… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It's not about what you say, it's about how you say it. It's not about what comes out of your mouth, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our ability to engage in passionate, unfiltered debate about what we need to do to succeed will determine our future as much… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
From the day I was elected, I began focusing on governing the best way I know how - transparently, openly, and in… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums,… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist,… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
“Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is a scene in 'Amanda Wakes Up' where it seems like something so high-stakes is happening in her world - and… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
I do think whatever the short-term gain for [Donald]Trump might've been by skipping the Fox debate, it was also kind of -… — Ryan Grim Copy Share Image
You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to… — Walter W. Powell Copy Share Image
The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
A lot of debate goes into the writing but I don't think a show can be destroyed. It's a TV show not… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Don't forget during the primary debates when Trump pointed at Carly Fiorina and said, "Look at that face, who would vote for… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over… — Lech Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
“Explicit arguments are the everlasting combat tools of a debate winner. Not the raising of the voice.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert I” — Justin Brierley Copy Share Image
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon. — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
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