Quotes About Debate

To me, I think we want an organization that's aligned. We want an organization that has the same vision. But we don't want an organization that all has the same ideas. We want people that are willing to argue, fight, scratch and claw, but everyone is working together.

Let's talk about policing and public safety. Let's debate what works and what does not. We must abandon practices that do not work, and do more of the things that actually do work to save lives.

Ravindra Jadeja should not be in the World Cup team.

All that Tim Kaine has is to try to convince people that conservatives are racist - and you know what, people are smarter than that.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

First law of an argument: those who remain reasonable will make others seem unreasonable.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

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 the first prize.

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over two hundred years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

Good reasons usually resolve moral disagreements, but for the emotivist, giving good reasons and using manipulation would essentially be the same thing.

A final objection to relativism is the charge that its central premise, namely that moral absolutes do not exist, is a self-defeating statement, since the premise itself is an absolute.