Accused Quote by Robert Dallek

Tonight was the CNN primary debate with the four remaining candidates. It was kind of a change for Newt Gingrich. Usually when he's arguing…

— Jay Leno

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from…

— Jim Talent

“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

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

“Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“But speech that preaches hate? That turns neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, that threatens to divide rather than unite? Speech that by its…

— C.J. Lyons

The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama…

— Ruzwana Bashir

“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

“The two of us have no interest in the tired old debate that is still playing out on Capitol Hill. Our interest is not…

— Michael R. Bloomberg

“The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending…

— Stephen Greenblatt

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

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

— Mark McKinnon