Quotes About Debate

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

The unwillingness to give a hearing to contradictory viewpoints, or to imagine that one might learn anything from an ideological or cultural opponent, represents a departure from the best side of American popular and elite intellectual traditions.

me for a minute and play devil's advocate." She leaned forearms on the table.

United Nations agenda. The manifesto states, "The library is a prerequisite to let citizens make use of their right to information and freedom of speech. Free access to information is necessary in a democratic society, for open debate and creation of public opinion.

In 1949, UNESCO published a Public Library Manifesto to establish the importance of libraries on the United Nations agenda. The manifesto states, "The library is a prerequisite to let citizens make use of their right to information and freedom of speech. Free access to information is necessary in a democratic society, for open debate and creation of public opinion.

The library is a prerequisite to let citizens make use of their right to information and freedom of speech. Free access to information is necessary in a democratic society, for open debate and creation of public opinion.

If we lose the power of informed debate, we become unable to avoid unfairness in society and to value differing viewpoints. Worse, we lose democracy. We must learn from our past mistakes and triumphs, not color them with a false paintbrush of bias or opinion or reinvent definitions for existing words calling the "truth" a "lie," or we shall never learn to become better people and leave a healthier, happier, safer planet behind us for our children and grandchildren.

The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.