Quotes on Debate

There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us.

Author: Peter Barnes

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

Author: Paul Begala

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

Author: Joe Biden

One can always debate questions back and forth.

Author: Robert Bourassa

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Author: Phil Bredesen

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

Author: Chester Brown

There's always merit to having a debate.

Author: Ward Churchill

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Author: Hillary Clinton

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Author: Michael Crichton

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Author: Bill Delahunt

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Author: Bill Delahunt

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Author: Arthur Eddington

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

Author: Charles Ellison

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Author: Recep Erdogan

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

Author: Russ Feingold

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

Author: Suzanne Fields

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Author: Joschka Fischer

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Author: Robyn Hitchcock

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Author: Karen Hughes

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

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

Author: Peter Jennings

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

Author: Michael Johns

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Author: Joseph Joubert

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

Author: Vanessa Kerry

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Author: Christopher Lasch

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

Author: Christopher Lasch

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

Author: David Letterman

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

Author: Margo MacDonald

I don't debate with liars.

Author: Evo Morales

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

Author: Yitzhak Rabin

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Author: Jessica Savitch

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

Author: Bob Schieffer

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

Author: Bobby Scott

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

Author: John Shimkus

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

Author: Jon Stewart

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

Author: Oliver Stone

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

Author: Randall Terry

He who frames the question wins the debate.

Author: Randall Terry

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument

Author: Desmond Tutu