Debate Quotes

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Hillary Clinton

Just to create awareness would be enough, to at least get a debate started.

Matt Dubay

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

“Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”

Herbert Clark Hoover

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

Rabindranath Tagore

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

Charles D. Ellison

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

Noam Chomsky

When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate.

Addison Whithecomb

These startup groups suggest an increasing sophistication in the immigration debate.

Mark Krikorian

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

John Shimkus

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

Barack Obama

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

Abraham Cowley

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Ibrahim Babangida

Debate is the death of conversation.

Kitty O'Neill Collins

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Amos Bronson Alcott