Quotes About Debate

If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'

On slower days, when I was only needed for coverage or reaction shots, the set of 'The Newsroom' was better than therapy. Chris Chalk and I would debate life's dilemmas... until Sam Waterston would chime in and set us both straight.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.

Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.

When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.

Our politicians debate this, but our scientists don't. A huge majority of climate scientists say climate change is happening. They say we're causing it and we need to do something about it before it has a terrible effect on all of us.

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

People should debate. They shouldn't be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that's how we learn.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you're either an uber-loyalist babe, or you're a rebel. There isn't any grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn't space in public debate for that.

Instead of casting politics as a semireligious debate about truth, it would be preferable to see the subject as a dispute among reasonable people who disagreed.

The differences between Plato and Aristotle had already been much debated. The argument stretched back to ancient Greece, where Aristotle had criticized and corrected Plato, the teacher with whom he began to study in 367 BC, when he was seventeen and Plato around sixty.