Debate Quotes - Page 29

• There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Insanity, Sides

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• The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

  Tobsha Learner

  Hate, Worst Enemy, Hatred

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• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Blue, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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• Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

  Joseph Sobran

  Goal, Wish, Principles

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• I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, People, Voting

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• The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this huge voting bloc that everybody says is yours

  Greg Gutfeld

  Issues, Political, Voting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Angel, Numbers, House

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Skills, Church

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.210

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• Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

  Abraham Cowley

  Hate, War, Gold

  Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• Necessity does not submit to debate.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Doe, Submit

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• The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

  Elizabeth I

  Daughter, Argument, Discord

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• Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that in debate... Some have suggested censure. I think it is certainly a possibility that the Senate will decide on some alternative to removing the president from office.

  Thad Cochran

  Thinking, Two, Office

  "After impeachment, all eyes turn to Senate" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. December 20, 1998.

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• We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

  William Cohen

  Giving Up, Freedom, Order

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• I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.

  Barbara Lee

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Alone on the Hill". Interview with Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

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• The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

  Janet Reno

  Success, America, Justice

  "Janet Reno's Choice". Janet Reno's speech before the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Smart, Arguing, Idiot

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• The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps

  Yevgeny Primakov

  Responsibility, Overcoming, Half

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• I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

  Michael Dowd

  Intelligent, Hands, Design

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• Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Division

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.599, Best Books on

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• The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

  David Letterman

  Lying, Rivers, Dancing

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• I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

  Pitbull

  Thinking, Fans, Want

  "Doggy Style" by Kent Russel, www.gq.com. March 22, 2012.

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• The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.

  Morgan Neville

  Editing, Opposites, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Ears, May

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• If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions.

  Umar

  People, Giving, Want

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