Debate Quotes · Page 41

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

— Mo Ibrahim

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing,…

— Byron Dorgan

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most…

— Samuel Alito

“Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.”

— Criss Jami

“Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.”

— Steve Dustcircle

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

— Rory Bremner

“Heed not the blind eye, the echoing ear, nor yet the tongue, but bring to this great debate the test of reason.…

— Vali Nasr

You can see why there are more people wanting to come from economically-distressed areas, and they can't all come to America. So…

— Rand Paul

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal…

— Marsha Blackburn

Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers…

— David Brooks

When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a…

— Nouman Ali Khan

I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache…

— David Sedaris

While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret…

— Nancy Gibbs

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the…

— Thomas Perez

I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do…

— Mitt Romney

He don't debate he concentrate on survivin' He don't like to drive if he's been drinkin' But he'll drink while he's drivin'…

— Devin the Dude

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger…

— Frank Keating

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

— Maajid Nawaz

Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I…

— Jay Leno

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

— Bernie Sanders

Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the…

— Jess Phillips

I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!

— Joe Lieberman

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's…

— Zach Galifianakis

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

— Phillip E. Johnson

I'd want to have a fair moderator. I thought that Mitt Romney was treated very unfairly in the third debate [in 2012].

— Donald Trump

It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s…

— Bernie Sanders

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing…

— James L. Buckley

American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery…

— Gilad Atzmon

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from…

— Anonymous

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure…

— Sidney Howard

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any…

— Bianca Jagger

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember…

— Jose Serrano

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

— Anthony Kennedy

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and…

— Steve Inskeep

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I…

— Hugo Chavez

There's a debate among Democrats about how they should approach this new [Donald's Trump] administration.

— Maxine Waters

When I go five games without a goal, there's always a debate. Everything else that I do on the pitch is never…

— Raul

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed…

— Andrew Scheer