Debate Quotes - Page 4

• For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ideas, Innovation, Needs

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

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Method, Promoting

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Effort, Political, Problem

  "Cal Thomas: Mr. Trump, please pick John Bolton for State" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. December 1, 2016.

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Notion, Doubtful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Integrity, People, Process

  "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.

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• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  Randall Terry

  Winning

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• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  Socrates

  Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

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• 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.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Inspiration, Needs, Hierarchy

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• 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.

  John Shimkus

  Illinois, Kentucky, Drug

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• 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.

  Joe Biden

  Real, Cutting, Matter

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• Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Healthy, Way, Compromise

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• When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

  Ann Coulter

  Lunch, Slavery, Littles

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Matter, Way

  "Consensus Science and the Peer Review" by Jorge R. Barrio, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. April 28, 2009.

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• 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.

  Alan Dershowitz

  College, Israel, Years

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• As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

  Bob Filner

  Hard Work, Immigration, Culture

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• The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Thinking, Goal, March

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Solitude, Truth Is

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• A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Real, Issues

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

  Hugo Chavez

  Believe, Our World, Government

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• One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

  Bradley Whitford

  Issues, Talking, Giving

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• During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marriage, Running, Gay

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• Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ice, Heat, Should

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• I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

  Juan Cole

  Thinking, Important, Policy

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• But I do think its necessary to have debates.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Thinking

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• In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

  John Scott

  Book, Mirrors, Issues

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