Quotes About Debate

the nations that have thrived have been those, like America, that are most comfortable with the cacophony, and even occasional messiness, that come from robust discourse

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.

I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.

Comprehensive immigration reform should be debated and passed by Congress.

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding the extreme ideas that have been gaining ground in the Netherlands for decades.

If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may be.

When I bring people on my show, I'm not going to bring the right-wingers on that just reinforce what I have to say, and I'm not going to bring on the liberals so that I can talk over them or interrupt them because, to me, that doesn't educate anyone or inform anyone.

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

Formula 1 is the sort of place where people tend to have an opinion about everything, and usually, they tend to believe their own opinion is the right one, even if it relates to someone else.