Debate Quotes

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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. — Joseph Joubert
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by… — Dean Koontz
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling… — Jonathan Kozol
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the… — Barbara Kruger
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. — Ted Kulongoski
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more… — Tony Kushner
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you… — Johann Lamont
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. — Christopher Lasch
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. — Jim Lehrer
If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. — Jim Lehrer
People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are… — Jim Lehrer
Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a… — Jay Leno
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and… — Rush Limbaugh
Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. — Dan Lipinski
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's… — Eric Liu
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and… — Nelson Mandela
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me. — Diego Maradona
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but… — Tatiana Maslany
We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can… — Jenny McCarthy
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger… — James McGreevey
One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those… — Jon Meacham
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. — John Stuart Mill
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but… — Michel de Montaigne
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. — Michael Moore
I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you… — Michael Moore

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