Debate Quotes - Page 4

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

There's always merit to having a debate.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

A fool and his money be soon at debate

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.

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

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

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

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

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

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.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

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

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

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.

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

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

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?