Debate Quotes - Page 9

I was really happy in the Globe and - in the Globe and Mail debate, which was on the economy, that there were questions about infrastructure, about immigration, about housing. These things have often been seen as municipal issues, but they truly are pan-Canadian issues. Now, I'm not saying I'm happy with all the answers, but I'm happy that at least we're talking about them.

I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.

I'm the only one that can take the debate to Barack Obama and win and be elected.

Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?

Ted Cruz is trying to have a one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.

I really don't have time at the moment for coalition debates. The voters will decide what the next parliament will look like. Those who wish to form a coalition with The Social Democrats can take a look at our platform and then they are more than welcome to talk to us.

It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.

We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.

Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not a bad egg, you know? Not a bad egg is a pretty high compliment in American politics, given the toxic atmosphere in which we currently dwell.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.

There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in Russia who believed in shock therapy were Bolsheviks a few people at the top that rammed it down everybody's throat. They viewed the democratic process as a real impediment to reform.