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Quotes About Debate

We're not here to discuss Maleficent! Her story is too long and complicated to debate in the time we have left...
~ Serena Valentino
Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq, said, "The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat."
~ Seth Moulton
The ambivalent nature of light points if anything to a continuous underlying substance, what traditional cosmology calls the ether, which also exhibits a discontinuous aspect by virtue of its being indistinct. The debate in this domain today, if one glances at the principles involved, is not very much different from that of the followers of hylomorphism and atomism in the Middle Ages and in Antiquity.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
You slew Khasar, you healed me, and you have perfect ankles. I really don't think this is a question we need to debate. -Khan Tegus
~ Shannon Hale
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst.
~ Shelley Berman
I love how your Christianity only comes into play when you don't have a rational argument for something you don't like.
~ Shelly Laurenston
It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.
~ Nick Matzke
The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.
~ Noam Chomsky
We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.
~ P. W. Singer
To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible
~ Pat Robertson
You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
~ Elizabeth Wein
It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like.
~ Fred Green
I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.
~ Hillary Clinton
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.
~ Hillary Clinton
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
~ Homer
My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.
~ James Mercer
President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.
~ Jan Brewer
The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.
~ Jay Leno
Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.
~ Jay Leno
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
~ John Adams
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
~ John Stossel
Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.
~ Jon Kyl
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
~ Chris Hayes