Debate Quotes

906 Debate quotes by 694 unique authors

It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there… — Leland Yee
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House… — Caleb Cushing
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent… — Robert D. Putnam
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,… — Unknown Author
So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze… — Romano Prodi
Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other… — Margaret Atwood
We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it… — Andy Hobsbawm
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent… — Nancy Gibbs
You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other. — Nancy Gibbs
While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion… — Nancy Gibbs
I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We… — Lee Kuan Yew
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was… — Aldrich Ames
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes — Sidney Howard
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a… — George Saintsbury
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable… — Anatole Broyard
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though. — Vanessa Kerry
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious… — Ernest Gellner
If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let… — Bishop Noel Jones
Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate.… — Jim DeMint
We have arrived at socialized medicine in America. I do not report this as either a good or bad event but simply as something that… — Robert J. Samuelson
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively… — Michio Kaku
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and… — Howard Berman
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. — Studs Terkel

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