In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions. — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Much as I would have liked to respond factually and truthfully to each and every piece of misinformation spread by the Brexit… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“A purely and passionately political person, as I understand, is a person who can find anybody pleasant so long as Politics is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP),… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found… — John Gibbons Copy Share Image
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The Mystery of Futile Debate: Why do we engage endlessly in futile political debates? We can argue politics forever, with nary a… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth. — George Soros Copy Share Image
I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Almost all political debates by politicians are no more than mutual leg pulling.” — Ravi Ranjan Goswami Copy Share Image
Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy. — Rachel Notley Copy Share Image
I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image