Quotes About Debate

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

It's time to elevate the debate in this country and allow the public to access the same neutral, unbiased, nonpartisan information that we in Congress rely on every day.

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.

People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

A noisy man is always in the right.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.