Debate Quotes

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

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Yitzhak Rabin

He who frames the question wins the debate.

Randall Terry

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

The debate in Washington will focus on ideology, ... will be no less important.

Jonathan Adler

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
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