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“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

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

— ContraPoints

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

— John Allen Fraser

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes…

— Douglas Wilder

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free,…

— Jens Stoltenberg

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

— Mark McKinnon

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

— Jim Lehrer

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a…

— Anonymous

“The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the…

— Dan Quayle

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