Debate Quotes
906 quotes by 694 authors
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All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is…
— Irina Bokova
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I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say…
— Unknown Author
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This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.
— Unknown Author
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
— Bill Delahunt
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While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.
— Seiji Maehara
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
— Yitzhak Rabin
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Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
— Joe Abercrombie
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After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new…
— Bob Ney
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There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.
— George W. Bush
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Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture
— John McCain
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I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a…
— John McCain
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My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle…
— Barbara Jordan
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Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.
— Philip Greenspun
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The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political…
— Jonathon Porritt
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The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
— David Antin
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of…
— Hannah Arendt
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You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!
— Hillary Clinton
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some…
— Elena Kagan
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