Quotes About Debate

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

Where's the CNN town hall for sanctuary cities?

Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'

The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based on an independent impact assessment of what social, economic and environmental risks might be expected.

When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

Intelligent women make the mistake of assuming that if they hold a higher degree, they can hold their own in a political debate, and they have a good understanding of mid-caps