Debate Quotes

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Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge. — Richard Dawkins
We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to… — Tony Blair
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep… — Dennis Kucinich
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions… — Bruce Feiler
The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America. — Mark McKinnon
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I… — Michael Sandel
Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts… — Evgeny Morozov
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political… — Marcus du Sautoy
Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents… — Paula Garces
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and… — Rick Atkinson
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo.… — Michael Eric Dyson
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests. — Jasper Carrott
There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations… — Marcus Samuelsson
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick… — Dick Cavett
Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate. — Monica Crowley
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair… — Jonathan Raymond
Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. — P.J. O'Rourke
I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However,… — Colleen Hanabusa

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