Quotes About Debate

Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.

So many people discuss, you know, Israel/Palestine as if it's people on a spectrum.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

There's always speculation around the best players.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

You can't come up and attack someone because of free speech.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.