Debate Quotes - Page 2

• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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

  Thomas Friedman

  Historical, Answers, Free Market

  Thomas L. Friedman (2000). “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization”, p.102, Macmillan

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• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  Barbara Jordan

  Passion, Emotional, Decision

  Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

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• Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

  Ann Coulter

  America, Names, Political

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• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Issues, Feels

  "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 05, 2004.

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

  Bill Delahunt

  Real, Echoes, Talking

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

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Way, Enjoyed

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• Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

  Helen Suzman

  Country, Party, Boss

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• 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.

  Bianca Jagger

  Bills, Bill O Reilly, Program

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

  Joschka Fischer

  Reform, Ongoing, Reformation

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• I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

  Judy Biggert

  Meaningful, Thinking, Reform

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

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Add, Should

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• See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Thinking, Goal, Very Good

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• 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!

  Harold H. Greene

  Law, Skills, Justice

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• Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Want, Who We Are

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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

  Randall Terry

  Believe, Winning, Political

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• 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.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Care, States, Amendments

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• While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.

  Jo Bonner

  Working Together, Important, Patriot

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• 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

  Years, Three, Privacy

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• Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

  Anthony Weiner

  Education, Cities, Three

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• 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.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, Issues, Presidential

  Dick Cheney at Vice President Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

  Sydney Schanberg

  School, Boots, Littles

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• 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.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Night, Nashville, Pms

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• I don't debate with liars.

  Evo Morales

  Liars, Lying

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• Debate is the death of conversation.

  Emil Ludwig

  Argument, Conversation, Contention

  "Dictionary of Quotations in Communications". Book by Lilless McPherson Shilling, Linda K. Fuller, 1997.

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