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Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

— Mark McKinnon

If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I'm debating is the person that is writing…

— Josh Earnest

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

— Russell T Davies

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

— ContraPoints

So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points…

— Morgan Neville

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

At any debate, you want viewers to have learned something they didn't know before - whether it's about the candidates' temperament, policies, or preparedness…

— Hallie Jackson

When discussion turns into debate reasoning takes a back seat to emotions.

— Tasneem Hameed

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

— John Allen Fraser

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out…

— Rick Perry

To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.

— Nancy Pelosi

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

— Ruzwana Bashir