Quotes About Debate

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.

The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Duplicity in matters of religion is not confined to Pakistan, but it hurts the most in societies where debate on religion is asphyxiated and preachers of hate have become keepers of faith.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

It takes time and effort to soldier on and make your arguments.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.

There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.

Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'

I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.