Debate Quote by ContraPoints Download Open image “A debate is a very specific kind of performance.” — ContraPoints ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debate Kind Performance Specific
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place;… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Debate is where you refine your arguments and I have often learned as much from my debating opponents as from my partners, maybe more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way. — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
More than 40 per cent of my viewers are female. When I do meetups and events, oftentimes the majority of people who show up… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence. — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
I carry with me from my male upbringing a sense that femininity is forbidden. So when I appear on YouTube with forty butterflies glued… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of YouTube makeup tutorials. I also watch a lot of channels where all they do is eat inhumanly huge amounts… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
As a prominent trans person, you hope that someone feels they know you and then thinks of you at the polls; you hope to… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
It's quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs. — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
It's going to take me less time to wreck Ben Shapiro than it took me to curl my hair. — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had the idea… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
There's this artistic drive or something in me that impels me to sympathize with villains, but it's maybe not a great impulse as someone… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
What really excites me is the prospect of making people actually enjoy thinking about difficult topics, to laugh even while seriously engaging these very… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
One of the undervalued contributors to Trump's stunning 2016 victory was the masterful performance Pence had in his debate against Hillary Clinton running mate… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
There can be a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act, but why should we shelter someone who has come to India illegally from outside? — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
The premise of any discussion I have is not to debate my humanity. I refuse to engage on that level. It makes for a… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
