Public Debate Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be… — Hannah Arendt
...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It… — Robert Kennedy
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the… — Robert McNamara
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
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate. — Yitzhak Rabin
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
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
Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the… — Charles Lemert
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
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
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
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate… — Dennis Hastert
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what… — Peter Hitchens
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately… — Barbra Streisand
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As… — Mark Lilla
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all… — Gunnar Myrdal
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media… — Ma Jian
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 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'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia… — Kevin Rudd

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24 authors contributed a total of 26 Public Debate Quotes as follows: