Accepting Quote by Studs Terkel

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

— Margaret Thatcher

If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.

— Johann Lamont

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

— Geraldine Ferraro

“The walls we build around us to keep the noise out only reverberate the same ideas, notions and beliefs we enforce, leaving no room…

— Aysha Taryam

We must have real debates where disagreements exist, listen to each other, not shy away from ideas different from our own and treat people…

— Will Hurd

“Because arguments require an expenditure of time and energy, we need to consider what is worth arguing about and what is not.”

— Jeanne Segal

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

— George W. Bush

TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.

— Claire Fox

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.

— Bill Maher

Discussion is an exchange ofknowledge, argument is an exchange of ignorance....!

— Ritu Ghatourey

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

— Anonymous

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

— Anonymous