Another Quote by Zephyr Teachout

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

“The Mystery of Futile Debate: Why do we engage endlessly in futile political debates? We can argue politics forever, with nary a hint of…

— Guillermo Jimenez

Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate…

— Ana Navarro

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

— Jim Lehrer

The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough…

— Douglas Brunt

I don't expect us to cover all the issues of this campaign [2016] tonight, but I remind everyone, there are two more presidential debates…

— Lester Holt

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

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

— John Allen Fraser

Debates are great for voters. The more the better.

— Tom Suozzi

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

— Peter Jennings

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big…

— Ralph Nader

I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them…

— Richard Dawkins