Debate Quotes

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News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news… — Unknown Author
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. — Jeff Goodell
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. — Edward Bond
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,… — John F. Kennedy
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations -… — Carl Sagan
It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority.… — Dan Rather
While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for… — Stephen Nathanson
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who… — Tom DeLay
You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices… — Barack Obama
We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only spend a fraction… — Dennis Kucinich
In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to… — Akira Mori
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on… — Jeremy Rifkin
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although… — George Will
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source… — Elaine Pagels
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you… — Michael Ondaatje
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. — Ibrahim Babangida
The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health. — David Satcher
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public… — Russ Feingold
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry… — Hunter S. Thompson
There's always merit to having a debate. — Ward Churchill
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates — Jean-Claude Juncker
We now live in an amazing digital world, and television is firmly part of that brave new world. Television is still the way to reach… — Neelie Kroes
There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including… — Christopher Dodd

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