Debate Quotes · Page 6

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

— Rory Bremner

Shortly after her nomination was announced,[Betsy] DeVos tweeted, almost as if she had forgotten something important to say. And she said, I…

— Claudio Sanchez

I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses...…

— Forest Whitaker

You can only have one aim per debate.

— Christopher Hitchens

I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't…

— Kathy Griffin

We still write too many stories that are "state of the race" stories that are informed almost solely by what the polling…

— Frank Bruni

We've learned something about President-elect [Donald] Trump's choice for secretary of defense. Lawmakers in Congress intend to proper debate over whether retired…

— Steve Inskeep

Marty Baron, 'The Post's executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the…

— David Fahrenthold

It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the…

— Pratibha Patil

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

— Richard M. Nixon

We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only…

— Dennis Kucinich

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

— Donald L. Carcieri

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

— Jesse Jackson

You look at that Democratic debate. I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean, in one week,…

— Mitt Romney

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or…

— Laura Marling

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

— Margaret Hoover

Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has…

— Barack Obama

You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have…

— Ron Paul

I think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree.

— Michael Pena

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

— Katie Pavlich

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

— Hozier

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

— Martha MacCallum

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts…

— Robert Bryce

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

— Mark McKinnon

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the…

— Michael Salter