Debate Quotes

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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
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
This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left. — Unknown Author
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. — Bill Delahunt
While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ. — Seiji Maehara
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate. — Yitzhak Rabin
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. — Joe Abercrombie
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
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
Bin Ladenâ€™s death and the debate over torture — John McCain
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
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
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
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
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
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
You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do? — Hubert H. Humphrey
We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration! — Hillary Clinton
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
If there is an â€˜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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