Debate Quotes
906 quotes by 718 authors
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We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and…
— Barbara Mikulski
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You look at that Democratic debate, I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean in one week he went from…
— Mitt Romney
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In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.…
— Louis Agassiz
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
— Heinz Pagels
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[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
— Hermann Bondi
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Debate is the death of conversation.
— Emil Ludwig
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of…
— Noah Webster
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...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It…
— Robert Kennedy
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That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the…
— Robert McNamara
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I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
— Joe Lieberman
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This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including…
— Barack Obama
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The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.
— James Stuart Stewart
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Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
— Janet Morris
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Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.
— Diana DeGette
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The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in…
— Heber Doust Curtis
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Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to…
— Walter E. Williams
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I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate…
— Stephen Colbert
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over…
— Al-Shafi‘i
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