Debate Quotes

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.