Debate Quotes · Page 4

It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.

— Michael Bennet

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture

— John McCain

He who defines the terms, controls the debate.

— Mike Evans

I believe in reasoned debate.

— Lorne Greene

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

— James Stuart Stewart

Any smart woman loves a good debate.

— Anonymous

I was on the debate team.

— Cordae

A fool and his money be soon at debate

— Thomas Tusser

“The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!”

— Ray S. Jones

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

— James Inhofe

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

— Bill Delahunt

“Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.”

— Amit Kalantri

Who better to help formulate and to lead debate on fighting ISIS and Islamic extremists than an Arabic-speaking former CIA case officer…

— Todd Wilcox

God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a…

— David Letterman

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

— Susanna Kaysen

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you…

— Frank Lampard

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Samuel Alito

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

“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight.…

— Gloria Steinem

The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the…

— Bill Nye

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon…

— Howard Coble

During last night's Republican debate, Mike Huckabee got a big laugh when he said that Congress has been spending money like John…

— Conan O'Brien

Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big…

— Greg Saunier

Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.…

— Ann Althouse

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms…

— Anonymous

Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate…

— Nancy Gibbs

“How can you say anything other than Ratatouille is Pixar's best movie? Your a chef, for Christ's sake," Sue said. Lou smiled…

— Amy E. Reichert

Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American…

— Ted Cruz

You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions,…

— Barney Frank

I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We…

— Rob Huebel

At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer