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
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
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 think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree. — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident… — Darrel Ray 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
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
“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 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
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 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
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is not open for debate. Why do Democrats feel that this is the one enumerated Constitutional right that they… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive? — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Earlier tonight the second Republican debate took place here in California. With 10 men and only one woman, everyone thought they were… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I don't feel like emotion has place in a debate, because emotion doesn't encourage rational debate - it shuts it down. It… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
The best ideas in the world will accomplish nothing if you leave them on paper. Talk about them. Debate, discuss, argue. Put… — Kevin Stirtz Copy Share Image
I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to… — Naheed Nenshi Copy Share Image
The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health. — David Satcher Copy Share Image