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Debate Quotes

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

– Garet Garrett

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

– Howard Coble

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

– Howard Rheingold

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

– Georges Duhamel

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

– Gerhard Schroder

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

– George Saintsbury

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

– Greg Bear

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

– Hillary Clinton

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

– Hubert H. Humphrey

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

– Jose Mujica

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

– Jack Kemp

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

– Joseph Joubert

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

– Jesse Ventura

I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.

– Isabelle Adjani

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

– Hale White

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

– Ian Hacking

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

– Ibrahim Babangida

Debate is so much better than denial.

– Julie Walters

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

– Howard Berman

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence – he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

– Jon Meacham

Dad was always that way: who’s the candidate that’s best for this country? We can debate theology later – that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that’s in my DNA.

– Jerry Falwell, Jr.

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we’re responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it’s no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

– Ian Mcewan

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

– Jesse Jackson

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

– Jim DeMint

The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.

– Jasper Carrott

You can only have one aim per debate.

– Christopher Hitchens

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue – it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

– Joseph Stiglitz

There is too much disagreement for disagreement’s sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

– Cory Booker

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

– Alan Dershowitz

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

– Angela Merkel

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