Debates Quotes · Page 2

“My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.”

— Amit Kalantri

I like to hear conversations that are debates.

— Misha Green

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

— Tony Abbott

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

— John Eldredge

I think three debates is good. I think it should be on a night where viewers are going to be able to…

— Donald Trump

I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.

— Stephen A. Smith

I like to think I've changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates.

— Nigel Farage

“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I cannot believe that [Donald Trump] is actually in the debates.

— Bill Burr

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

— Mark McKinnon

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

— Stephen Kinzer

While it's true that the vice presidential slot isn't the most important thing on people's minds in a presidential election, these debates…

— Mollie Hemingway

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

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control…

— Bob Barr

“Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening.…

— Mike Adams

If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get…

— Michele Bachmann

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day…

— James P. Moran

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic…

— Eugene Fama

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of…

— Barack Obama

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence…

— Preston Manning

I really don't have time at the moment for coalition debates. The voters will decide what the next parliament will look like.…

— Martin Schulz

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights…

— Ai Weiwei

It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions…

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.…

— Frank R. Zindler

I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and…

— H. L. Mencken

One one hand, it's important to hear out the other side and try to reason with them using facts. The problem arises…

— Ana Kasparian

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is…

— Leah Hager Cohen

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

— Rich Lowry

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

— William J. Clinton

“With all the debates about whether or not God is dead, if he isn't he had better have Medicare!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The real dynamic is that when Greens are in the debates, Conservatives don't do as well.

— Elizabeth May

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

— Michael J. Knowles

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

— George W. Bush

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

— Dennis Kucinich

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

— John Stuart Mill

“Discussions, debates and even arguments will be fruitful if done with an open mind.”

— Haresh Sippy

Mexico isn't a country of routine debates among presidential candidates.

— Denise Dresser

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

— Mark McKinnon

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast,…

— Barack Obama

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs.…

— Jackson Katz