Debate Quotes - Page 6

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

I cannot believe that [Donald Trump] is actually in the debates.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

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

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

I guess it happens. What - Marco actually gave me cover, because he actually said the same thing, and he said it during the debate, that he was lying. So, I just said you can't say things which are lies and claim Christianity. You just can't do it. I just don't think it's good. I'm not questioning his Christianity. I just think it's inappropriate to hold up the Bible and lie.

You can only have one aim per debate.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.