Able Quote by Rick Perry

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

— Mark McKinnon

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Debates are great for voters. The more the better.

— Tom Suozzi

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

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

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

— David Gemmell

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

— Geraldine Ferraro

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

— Ron Fournier

I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let…

— Gloria Steinem

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded…

— Bob Barr

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

— Margaret Hoover

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged…

— Walter Cronkite