This is our in-house version of first world bullying in the global waring debate: i.e, We pollute, you pay.
Arundhati Roy
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
Saul Bellow
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Lasch, Christopher
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
General Colin Powell
The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
Bill Delahunt
As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
Jose Serrano
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
Lancelot Hogben