Quotes About Debate

We are not going to repeal Obamacare.

One of the things I hate about politicians, I shouldn't say I hate things, but one of the things I hate about politics is people who repeat the same talking point over and over and over again.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

One of the tenets that makes America so great is that we value the opportunity to have a battle of ideas and to elect the best possible representation of those ideas.

I think, in general, straight actors should be able to play queer roles just as much as queer actors should be able to play straight roles. I think the reason why the debate is there is because we haven't had enough queer actors being cast in anything. People are in need of that representation in general.

When you're on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Democratic caucus, I like to say it feels like New Jersey. You have all different opinions, you have all different ideas.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.