Debate Quote by Mark McKinnon

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to…

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Mark McKinnon

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

— Matt Rosendale

Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted…

— Alan Lightman

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions…

— Dale Jamieson

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the…

— Lord Acton

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

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

— Geraldine Ferraro

“Explicit arguments are the everlasting combat tools of a debate winner. Not the raising of the voice.”

— Klaudio Marashi

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

— William J. Clinton

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

— David Gemmell

“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely…

— George Orwell