Quotes About Debate

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising - or that humankind is the cause. There is no evidence to refute this - or any genuine scientific counterargument in the climate change debate.

There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.

The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warming is for a rain shower.

Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits.

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

Deep in my heart, I care about social-justice warriors.

Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.

If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer.

Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong you are.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.