Debate Quotes

906 quotes by 718 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Heinz Pagels
[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate. — Hermann Bondi
Debate is the death of conversation. — Emil Ludwig
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
...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
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
I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry! — Joe Lieberman
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
The gospel is a declaration, not a debate. — James Stuart Stewart
Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate. — Janet Morris
Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about. — Diana DeGette
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
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
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
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-Shafiâ€˜i

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