Quotes About Debate

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

Every day of my life, I come against a conservative who wants me to shut up. I do believe I'm right and they are wrong.

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

I think most people like a bit of freedom and hearing things that they might not agree with, rather than just having everybody shutting their mouths.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I'm agreeable. That's not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.

Along with 'normal' people in this country, I'm sick and tired of political correctness.

Hear the other side.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

There are two sides to every question.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.